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Wow... that's pretty bad. I just tried it and it works. I hope they roll out a fix soon -- it's a little scary to think that each keystroke is going to both t
by jcl 18y ago
Wow... that's pretty bad. I just tried it and it works.
I hope they roll out a fix soon -- it's a little scary to think that each keystroke is going to both the current application and an invisible, root-level command prompt.
- kqr2 18y agoBut I hope that they don't cut off root access!
- jcl 18y agoI'm curious: What would you do with root access that you can't already do with the phone itself?
- wmf 18y agoRouting between 3G and 802.11 comes to mind, although I don't know if the kernel has the right modules.
- vetinari 18y agoFor example: flash your own image (without root, you can only flash image signed by T-Mobile/Google/HTC; how good is to have access to source code, if you can't build it and run it on real device?), create VPN connections, write useful bluetooth profiles like DUN (tethering done correctly) or A2DP. What you can do with root access is much longer list than what you can do the Google blessed way.
- jodrellblank 18y agoThe "if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide" argument in another disguise. You're the one (as much as) arguing in favour of expending effort, adding code and complexity to restrict my root access, the burden is on you to justify doing so, not on me to refute it.
- tlrobinson 18y agoLuckily I don't type "sudo rm -rf /" or similar things in normal conversation very often...
- jcl 18y agoTrue, you wouldn't type a delete command in normal conversation, but you have to feel sorry for the guys in the bug report who were running ssh sessions on their phones... They were typing UNIX commands and thus were at a much higher risk of harm. You wouldn't need the "sudo" -- it's a root-level prompt. (Hmm... typing "make me a sandwich" unfortunately has no visible effects...)
- nostrademons 18y agoGood thing you didn't post this comment from an Android phone... ;-)