New hacks strike at heart of mobile innovations

The hack can be triggered by tricking a smartphone user into installing an application rigged to reach out and connect with the pre-installed support tool, Bobrov explained.

That isn't a hack! Media overreaction again. If you have to get someone to install an app (which could do anything) then you are not hacking. It's like saying "I can steal your car, if you give me a copy of the key".

That isn't a hack! Media overreaction again. If you have to get someone to install an app (which could do anything) then you are not hacking. It's like saying "I can steal your car, if you give me a copy of the key".

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In some cases the hack can be accomplished by sending a text message that a recipient doesn’t even have to open, he warned.

That is most definitely a hack.

This was already fixed a week ago. Old news now.

Oh defiantly. But we need to think about the long run. Thus is defiantly a sigh of things to come.

Strangerland: Did I say otherwise?

Yes:

That isn't a hack!

Strangerland: Yep to the first point, I wasn't referring to anything else.