An ethical-hacking firm discovered mobile devices from Apple, Google, RIM and HTC had a flaw in them that would allow an attacker to freeze them up. While RIM decided the problem needed to be patched in its BlackBerry devices, Google and HTC reportedly shrugged off the information. Google responded by saying, “Traditionally, we don’t consider local denial of service attacks of this kind to be security bugs” That turned out to be a surprisingly lengthy process of about 200 days as the company quietly worked with its 500 carrier partners.”]