A security flaw in the G1's web browser has been found

A team of computer geeks found a serious security flaw in the web browser of the T-Mobile G1 that could potentially equip hackers with a loophole, allowing them to dupe unsuspecting G1 users into visiting rogue websites. The website could then covertly install software that would log keystrokes onto the phone.

This security breach would enable hackers to view exactly what keystrokes and buttons the users was inputting into the G1 and then easily been used to gain access to passwords, social security numbers, banking information, dirty little messages, basically anything that is typed or pressed on the phone that you wouldn't want some hacker punk knowing.

Charles Miller, one of the guys who cracked that hack said, "I can basically do anything the web browser has permission to do," said Mr Miller. "I can read text  messages, read their cookies, see their passwords, watch them surf the web and watch what they ty pe."    Luckily Miller won't release any details of the hack and says that Google has been made aware of the flaw.

Google acknowledged the problem, but insisted that the G1 has built-in security features to limit the threat. The G1 inserts a series of partitions between applications and programs and thus should at least slow down any attempts.

A Google security engineer said, "We wanted to sandbox every single application because you can't trust any of them,"

He said that Google was working on getting a software fix to all users of the G1 phone.

I'm sure Google will be on this, and quick.

Till the future...