iPhone OS 3.1 anti-phishing works; you just need to set it up properly

hello i download a iphone 3.1 but i coudnt get it to work
its says.., this Sim card inserted to this iphone, does not appear to be supported
why...?

Why not just have itunes download it and send it to the phone when syncing? Or an update process through the online store? This just seems odd.

Seems to me a bit of a kludge. I was going to say that they should just have iTunes sync the blacklist automatically, but I imagine that idea will be attacked by many who will respond that they don't sync with iTunes daily, which is fair enough.

I agree with those who posted that this sounds like poor communications in terms of explaining the feature and how to keep it current.

They have never sold out to The Man. Leave this band alone!

Must be something wrong with my iPhone 3GS, and my 3G before that. When I turn the screen off, my wireless disconnects and it uses 3G. This is evidenced by it being on 3G when I turn it back on briefly, and when I turn it off I see the disconnect happen on my Airport Extreme base station.

Not sure about this...

Interesting. So if I want this to work, I'll have to uninstall that plugin that kills the Safari process when I hit the home button (unless I want to leave Safari open every so often to update it, which I'll never remember to do). Good tip!

This is all well and good but also rather stupid if you ask me. First up is that I don't have regular access to Wifi (one of the reasons to buy iPhone), especially when charging which often happens at night or in the car.

Second something this important really needs a user instituted option. That is if I'm near a wifi access point there ought to be a way to fire up the download process and to verify that it has completed. Really how does one know if they have a complete blacklist file.

Third something like this needs to have been publicly documented. Of course Apple is likely to be embarrassed by the whole arraignment so that won't happen.

This simply strikes me as Apple at its worst. Here we have an important feature that requires the user to jump through hopes of an unknown sort to even use the feature. It is far to opaque for my tastes.


Dave

How do you know its downloading the information? Is there a way to check to see if it's updated?

Ed beat me...and did a better job explaining. Nice work.

"For most users this process should happen automatically when they charge their phone."

I don't think most users launch Safari before putting their phone on to charge, so I don't really buy that.

And while we're at it, why are they downloading the database, why don't they just use an online one? After all, they can't use the excuse that they want to protect you even when you don't have a data connection, because if you don't have a data connection you're not going to be able to get to the phishing site.

This just doesn't make sense to me at all.