Security Flaw Revealed In T-Mobile's Google Phone

Just days after the T-Mobile G1 smartphone went on the market, a group of security researchers have found what they call a serious flaw in the Android software from Google that runs it.

One of the researchers, Charles A. Miller, notified Google of the flaw this week and said he was publicizing it now because he believed that cellphone users were not generally aware that increasingly sophisticated smartphones faced the same threats that plague Internet-connected personal computers.

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Comments

[thegreatgiginthesky]

Oh man, a security flaw and no microsoft to blame this time.

[TheVicar]

What's that, Apple bashers from the "new Macbooks" comments section? No complaints when an open-source phone fails to be any better than the iPhone at security? Shocking.