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disaster  Customers of ID Mobile's MogoRoad iPhone application
are complaining that they're getting sales calls from the
company, a process which turns out to be technically a piece of
cake.  The proof of concept was put together by Mac4Ever who
created an iPhone app which displays the handset's phone number.
Passing that back to a server is obviously trivial, and could
easily trigger the kind of sales calls about which downloaders
of MogoRoad are complaining.  Grabbed phone number screen shot
Mac4Ever demonstrating how easy it is to grab a phone number
Users commenting on the Swiss iTunes store are upset that their
personal data has been uploaded*, and is being used to try and
sell them stuff.  Programmatically reading a mobile phone number
is generally quite hard, because mobile phones have no real
reason to know th