* establishing of arbitrary phone calls

>From RFC 3966 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3966.html):


11.  Security Considerations


   The security considerations parallel those for the mailto URL

   [RFC2368].


   Web clients and similar tools MUST NOT use the "tel" URI to place

   telephone calls without the explicit consent of the user of that

   client.  Placing calls automatically without appropriate user

   confirmation may incur a number of risks, such as those described

   below:


   o  Calls may incur costs.

   o  The URI may be used to place malicious or annoying calls.

   o  A call will take the user's phone line off-hook, thus preventing

      its use.

   o  A call may reveal the user's possibly unlisted phone number to the

      remote host in the caller identification data and may allow the

      attacker to correlate the user's phone number with other

      information, such as an e-mail or IP address.


So, if you are referring to the callto: security risk on most all mobile 
browsers, they already know.

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