[Bassey]

For a long time mobile OSs have been considered far more secure than their desktop brethren. One of the (several) reasons for this was the lack of a permanant internet connection. As many people are now keeping their data connections permanantly open, thanks to all you can eat data plans, this restriction has dissappeared.

Still, devices are set up by default to ask the user before installing apps and to ask before sending data so they are pretty secure with a bit of common sense. I wonder how long it will be, though, before these things are bypassed for the sake of "ease of use", particularly in a corporate sense.

It makes huge sense to be able to bypass user interaction when deploying software, updates, sending data etc. from a Corporate standpoint. If you're deploying an update to 1000 devices you want minimum interaction. However, once the facilities are in the OS, it's only a matter of time before someone comes up with a way of exploiting it.