The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone

The article notes many business opportunities for hackers based on cell phones, which may not be apparent to hackers in the United States.

"The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a trade group. That would mean more human beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet."

As the article mentions in the last paragraph, vanilla cell phones were luxuries until quite recently, even in the west. I wouldn't be surprised if smartphones are ubiquitous in the third world within the next decade.