The leading Android smartphone producer Samsung had on at least two of their flagship phones a world RW device that allowed full access to the entire system mem

The leading Android smartphone producer Samsung had on at least two of their flagship phones a world RW device that allowed full access to the entire system memory including the entirety of the kernel, deliberately: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027894 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027894 They needed it to get the camera working. This is not an exaggeration, the people they have writing software for their phones will take every shortcut they can find or imagine to deliver another bullet point on the feature list. Security be damned.