Disabling Unsafe URI Handlers
by Volker Weber
Nils Heeren points me to John Gruber's advice to disable unsafe URI handlers. Thank you, Nils.
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John Gruber's article has been updated, by the way, to include disabling telnet too. (http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/telnet_protocol)
I disabled a bunch of protocols, including disk, disks, telnet, ssh (and help).
While I believe that the threat is more theoretical, at least for the sites that I visit every day, you can further enhance the security with Paranoid Android. According to Unsanity it would be quite easy for Apple to fix this hole and I assume they will soon do that.
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