Network World's Tim Greene warns that hacked smartphones could potentially put troops in danger.

"Malicious software that commandeers phone functions could give wartime enemies valuable information about troop locations and movements, according to Hugh Thompson, a software security professor at Columbia University and conference chairman for the RSA Conference, and Markus Jakobsson, who works on the PayPal online security and malware strategy team," Greene writes.

"Jacobsson says he has discussed the problem with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)," Greene adds.

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