Researchers at the University of California in the United States said in a paper presented at the "2008 Conference on Applications, Psychology and Security" held in San Francisco that network browsers in popular electronic devices often cancel important security functions in desktop browsers.
University of California researchers Yuan Niu, Francis Hsu, and Hao Chen studied the mobile Safari browser in Apple's iPhone and the Opera browser in Nintendo's Wii and DS gaming consoles. They said that relying on display screen input is a threat to entering known URL addresses. Users are more likely to click on URL addresses in emails.