Mind you, I am not actually going to be buying one of these phones. I can already hear the screams of "You spent HOW MUCH?! For a PHONE?!" at the mere thought of spending $500-600 for a device that I use mostly for conversation and rarely for internet connectivity. I'll be more than happy to look over a friend's shoulder and listen to him swear up and down at it while the kinks are worked out though.

Anyway, last week Steve Jobs announced that Apple will be allowing other companies to write applications for the iPhone through the Safari web browser.

Let the malware race begin!

David Maynor (of the Macbook compromise debacle at the Blackhat conference in 2006. He has since apologized) has stated that he already has identified several bugs within Safari which will allow for remote code execution. Since he does not yet have an iPhone though he doesn't yet know how well, if at all, his findings will pan out into anything significant.

Whether or not you believe Maynor or whether you believe he is credible the proof of concept is sound in that by allowing third party applications to be built for the iPhone, Apple has opened the door for hackers to race to create the first, biggest, and best iPhone botnets. It'll only be a matter of time before we are actively using terms like PhoneBot or iBot to discuss the state of our shiny, new iPhones.