Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile"s G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get around restrictions created by the phone"s designers.
The hack gives G1 users a way to read data on parts of the phone that are normally walled off and could be used to install new programs, or even a new operating system, on the mobile phone. Currently, programs for the open source Android operating system must be written in Java, rather than other popular programming languages such as C or C++.