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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. Rooted? by earthcreed · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in, all machines that you have root access on rooted! If you have access to run telnetd you already have root.

    1. Re:Rooted? by Deadplant · · Score: 5, Funny

      in related news, researchers have discovered that if you open a root console on any flavour of linux and stick the keyboard out a window anyone walking by will be able to gain root access to you machine.

    2. Re:Rooted? by paeanblack · · Score: 5, Informative

      If the door's unlocked, it's hardly "breaking in," is it?

      Yes it is.

      The "Breaking" part of "Breaking & Entering" refers to breaking the plane of entry, not physically damaging anything.

      "Breaking" is not actually a separate action from "Entering". The reason they are used together is for clarity...one word derives from Old English, and the other word derives from French. Writing laws this way was useful when the Normans and Saxons were trying to cohabitate on the same island.

      There are many legal terms constructed the same way:
      Null and void
      Cease and desist
      Last Will and Testament
      Aid and Abet
      Goods and Chattels
      Terms and Conditions
      etc.

    3. Re:Rooted? by haystor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Clearly, we should avoid using windows.

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    4. Re:Rooted? by SnowZero · · Score: 5, Funny

      Null and void

      These are very different things, at least if you are a C programmer.

    5. Re:Rooted? by pete_norm · · Score: 5, Funny

      How do you know?

  2. I haven't followed the whole Android business, but by Loibisch · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...wasn't this supposed to be an open platform anyway? I don't quite get it.

  3. Re:hmnn? by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, its a problem if you are both security conscious AND stupid.... oh how I wish that was a much smaller intersection than it actually is....

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  4. Re:This is like saying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I found an exploit to alter the root password on Unix systems. It's really simple. You just login or su to root, then run the command 'passwd'. Works every time.

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. In addition to... by jonaskoelker · · Score: 5, Funny

    So are Terms and Conditions.

    Terms are the things around your pluses and minuses.

    Conditions (in my interpretation) are expressions of an integral type inside a conditional statement.

    I wouldn't want to handle volatile chemicals or long johns or union jacks if I'm about to get struct bylightning. Happened to me once, a long long time ago.