Mobile phone OS security changing?

["Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken () KRvW com>]

Greetings,

I noticed an interesting "article" about a mobile phone virus affecting 
Symbian-based phones out on Slashdot today.  It's an interesting read:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/04/06/0049209.shtml?tid=220&tid=100&tid=193&tid=137

What particularly caught my attention was the sentence, "Will mobile OS 
companies, like desktop OS makers, have to start an automatic update system, 
or will the OS creators have to start making their software secure?"  Apart 
from the author implying that this is an "or" situation, it's something that 
many of us have been saying for a very long time.  (See my/Mark Graff's 
related op-ed from over a year ago at: 
http://www.securecoding.org/authors/oped/feb132004.php)

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
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