Research released last week fingered the iPhone as the source of a text messaging exploit that could be used to steal sensitive information from smartphone users or work mischief on their hardware. The flaw, revealed by a well-known security researcher and jailbreaker of iPhones, involves the "reply to" line in SMS messages. In its analysis of the SMS flaw, AdaptiveMobile, a mobile security company, found that Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian phones either ignore the "reply address" field or display both the originating and the reply addresses in the message.
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