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I'm curious: What would you do with root access that you can't already do with the phone itself?
by jcl 18y ago
I'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.