Wired.com has a problem with the iPhone: it runs on root. From the article:
“With the limited bandwidth of the iPhone, malicious code would be unlikely to slow portions of the internet. But malware could wreak creative havoc of a different kind. It might, for example, cause a phone to call numbers without the user's knowledge, seize text messages and a list of received and sent calls, turn the phone into a listening device, track the user's location through nearby WiFi access points, or instruct the phone to snap photos of the user's surroundings -- including any companions who may be in view of the camera lens.”
I’d like to see any one of those “for examples” actually carried out in everyday conditions. The “track a user’s location through nearby WiFi” is completely ridiculous. I guess if a mythical omnipotent being knew the name and geographical location of every WiFi point in the world, it could be possible.
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