I thought "rooted" in the Android sense just meant that you had sudo installed. Why would malware be helped by having sudo installed? A privilege escalation at

I thought "rooted" in the Android sense just meant that you had sudo installed. Why would malware be helped by having sudo installed? A privilege escalation attack has no use for it, unless you think there are security holes in sudo. Has there been or do you have reason to believe there are? I heard these statements before and I'm never sure what to make of it. For a casual user, the possibility to click yes to a sudo dialog is a code path to disaster, but as these things need to be flashed specifically (which is a big hurdle in itself) I'm not sure how big problem it is in practice.