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Looking on the bright side, this offers a wonderful new opportunity to root your phone without rooting your phone. And at what point do we stop calling these s
by brettyGood 13y ago
Looking on the bright side, this offers a wonderful new opportunity to root your phone without rooting your phone.
And at what point do we stop calling these sorts of problems "vulnerabilities" and start calling them surrepitious "back doors"?
- Oletros 13y agoThere is no rooting involved
- brettyGood 13y agoYes, precisely my point. Hence the phrase "rooting without rooting". If it's possible use this vulnerability to arbitrarily rewrite the contents of any or all of the APKs loaded onto a given phone, then this flaw allows for the ability to engage in a key behavior that makes rooting Android popular: Disabling all of the unwanted bloatware that device manufacturers usually prevent you from deleting.
- Oletros 13y agoThis exploit won't disable anything, you still will have any of those apps installed and shown