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T-Mobile G1 Rooted

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile's G1 phone, the first commercially available Android based phone, has been rooted. The exploit is extremely simple to execute, just requiring you to run telnetd from a terminal on the phone, and then connecting to the phone via telnet."

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  1. Coral to the rescue by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Coral Cache

    On a side note... a hyphenated domain name! How retro...

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  2. Re:No, you don't have to run as root first. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actually, the only weird thing is that telnet can listen on port 23 (but removing the privileged-ports-for-root-only rule might make sense on a phone). Telnet often exec()'s /bin/login or similar, and if that file is setuid root...

  3. Re:No, you don't have to run as root first. by SnowZero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just about everyone in the robotics community calls them humanoid robots anyway. "Android" and "droid" are pretty much confined to sci-fi, and by the time we have real androids, I'm pretty sure this phone OS will be a thing of the past. Sure, Ishiguro's current work in this area is pretty interesting, but even those robots are only mistaken for humans from a distance, and they aren't mobile.

  4. Re:Haha this was such a non-hack... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I found this I didn't even bother posting it to xda for a couple days thinking it was so obvious that it had to be intentional/known.

    Guess other people were in fact interested!

    Next time, just run out and patent the idea. You could make some money.

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  5. Re:BUT TEH GOOGEL BE TEH DUNT BE TEH EVEL!!!111!!! by spazdor · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I want complex moderations.

    (+i, Imaginative)

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