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iPhone lacks 802.1x support – sign this petition to make Apple support it

Categories: Apple, iPhone, Technologies
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 5:43 PM

 iPhone feature hole - 802.1x missingSo, add this to the list of features that the iPhone is missing. It seems that the iPhone won’t play nice with the college/university-favorite 802.1x network access control standard. The 802.1x IEEE standard is used to secure wireless networks and filter access to the network.

Fortunately, there’s this here petition to help convince Apple to give the iPhone 802.1x support for the iPhone. Many college students are unable to log into their campus-wireless networks because of this oversight. 802.1x should have been included in the original firmware, but with enough signatures, we might get it with the iPhone v1.1.4 software.

Let’s make this the next iPhone-feature-hole that Apple plugs!

iPhone 802.1x support petition
What the heck is 802.1x? 

[Via: iPhone Atlas]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Mr-X

    A wise man on HoFo once said: “Online petitions are about as useful as the iPhone”.

  • fenris

    So.. It can only connect to unsecured networks – and IT’S AWESOME!

    And it took the iPhone people how many months to notice? Tell me: If Apple won’t “give” you encryption support – will it really matter even one tiny little bit?