Hackers are less interested in taking apart mobile phones than they are in cracking browsers.

The CanSecWest conference's popular hacking contest saw both Apple and Microsoft's browsers bought to their knees. In the case of the 'Super Secure' Apple Mac Safari it took only ten seconds.

However nobody took a crack at the five mobile devices despite the fact that the contest's sponsor, TippingPoint, is paying out US$10,000 per mobile bug, twice what it's paying for the browser flaws.

The rules for the mobile hacking competition were much harder. Exploits have to work with virtually no user interaction. Apparently breaking into mobile devices is "harder" than PC hacking and there is not much documentation around on how to do it.