I used to SSH from my moto droid to my university lab and work on my bus commute. Back when I cared, I would root my phone and install custom roms and had basi

I used to SSH from my moto droid to my university lab and work on my bus commute. Back when I cared, I would root my phone and install custom roms and had basically a fully functioning Linux environment. iptables worked and I would block network access to certain apps. It's been a long time since I used to mess around with this stuff, but file access was fine. I'm not sure what the case is now, but it was possible to access pretty much all the files on the phone. Apps had their own folders mounted in /data/ and you could mess around with their files easily. Android is much more of a computing device than a microwave or an iOS device.