Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/security-experts-hating-on-android-browser-until-patch-is-releas/
Software vulnerabilities are
no stranger to modern, highly-connected smartphones and feature phones alike, and fortunately, the big guys have been pretty good about staying on the ball and patching the serious stuff in a reasonable amount of time. The latest problem discovered in the Android browser's multimedia subsystem really sucks, though -- it's so bad, some security dudes are advising customers to "avoid" using the it altogether until it gets fixed -- and the most frustrating part about it is that it actually
is fixed in the Android code trunk, it's just that no one's bothered to roll out an update to
G1 users yet. In the meantime, the dude who discovered the problem is advising users to only visit trusted sites and avoid WiFi, so yeah, just don't browse or anything, okay?
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