Will we see pickpockets stealing money just by standing too close to people?

Mine's the blue coat with with NFC tag in it... oops, someone switched it, now it's a green coat...

that the obvious place for this sort of thing would be on posters and machines in stations on the London Underground. Shame that there is precious little signal to be had there so you won't get very far!

Until I'm walking down the street, and I start getting spammed by physical posters next to me.

"Smart Posters" loading URLs into my phone's browser. Noooo thank you.

Mine's the one lined with tin foil.

With Telstra basically running the show, it wouldn't be economical to do things over mobile phones anyway. So at least this country is safe from "smart" advertising.

...just when I thought they couldn't come up with yet more security holes in mobile phones, they up the ante with this sort of mindboggling stupidity. What blithering idiot would want advertisers to take control of his handset?

Oh, wait... I know... everybody who's l33t.

Good show from the Fraunhofer crew -- Nokia would probably prefer to keep mum about it.

I'll stick with my Motorola antique. Hasn't been hacked in 15 years.

Paris, because she might throw a phone at you, but not even she would not be stupid enough to let others do the dialling for her without her say-so.