The New York Times has a great computer and gadget section every Thursday with reporters, like David Pogue, who know their stuff about computers. Which makes it all the more difficult to understand why they got everything wrong with their story on security issues with cell phones all wrong.

A representative from Flexilis stood out front at the Academy Awards ceremony to see if he could hack into cell phones of the stars. All for research of course. The idea was that he would use a method called bluesnarfing to tap into the phones and exploit the same security flaws Paris Hilton's phone had.

The Sidekick from T-Mobile, used by Paris Hilton, does not have Bluetooth as a part of its feature set.

Not only that, the story got it wrong in saying that most smartphones store their data on a central server like Paris' wireless service provider. most smartphones (cellphones with PDA functions) store data on the phone itself.

So not only did the reporters get their information wrong, the Flexilis employee really didn't do a good job in representing Flexilis, a company that focusses on mobile phone security.