According to this New York Times article, Charles A. Miller, a former NSA computer security expert, has begun publicizing a flaw with the T-Mobile G1's browser that he along with a group of security researchers discovered. Google is working on an update to fix the vulnerability to this component of their new mobile-based operating system, but also notes that the architecture of the operating system offers some protection against the flaw. As Android keeps all applications running in "sandbox" mode, a vulnerability to one component should not have access to harm other components. The vulnerability in question would require the end user to navigate to a malicious website that would install software that could track any information entered into the browser on other websites.

If you have a T-Mobile G1, just make sure you don't visit any websites that you're not familiar with or that are linked to from suspicious sources, and you should be fine until Google issues an update.

See the conversations below for more details and make sure you see Obsessable's first impressions of the T-Mobile G1.

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