G1 Google Android Phone has major security flaw

From NYTimes.com

One of the researchers, Charles A. Miller, notified Google of the flaw this week and said he was publicizing it now because he believed that cellphone users were not generally aware that increasingly sophisticated smartphones faced the same threats that plague Internet-connected personal computers.

Mr. Miller, a former National Security Agency computer security specialist, said the flaw could be exploited by an attacker who might trick a G1 user into visiting a booby-trapped Web site.

Read the whole article here.

I wonder how serious this really is though, since it requires the user to be tricked into visiting a "booby-trapped" website. I don't think this is as major as people are making it out to be.