Oops, that's why it's software

Dean Takahashi has an article in Venture Beat about problems with the new Google Android phone software:

A veteran security researcher has found a security hole in the T-Mobile G1 phone, which runs Google’s Android software. Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators in Baltimore told The New York Times that he was able to redirect the G1’s web browser to a malicious web site. Miller, Mark Daniel, and Jake Honoroff were able to hack the G1 just a few days after it started selling. Miller notified Google of the flaw this week and said he was publicizing it to warn smartphone users of the vulnerability.
The attack follows a familiar tactic for Miller, who has received a lot of press before because he was able to hack Apple’s Leopard operating system, the MacBook Air, and the iPhone. In each case, he was either the first one to crack the systems or partnered with someone who did. He was, for instance, able to hack the iPhone because it used the same vulnerable Safari web browser as the Macintosh computers. In that case, there was a known vulnerability but Apple didn’t include the fix for it in the iPhone. In another case, Miller and his fellow security researcher Dino Dai Zovi were able to hack Second Life because it depended on the vulnerable QuickTime movie player made by Apple.

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