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Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell
pasokon writes "ZDNet reports on an Android bug in T-Mobile G1s with early versions of the firmware: 'When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thus every word you typed, in addition to going to the foreground application would be silently and invisibly interpreted as a command and executed with superuser privileges. ... open the keyboard tray on your G1, ignore anything you see on the screen, and type these 8 keystrokes: (enter)-r-e-b-o-o-t-(enter). Poof, your phone will reboot.'"
Hmm, what do you know... another obvious quirk to the Android that gets it on the frontpage of slashdot. I'm beginning to suspect it could be intentional for free advertising at this point. But then, who am I to question OS compilation? I couldn't even get Gentoo to run.
Once again modded down by children who don't read histories. Lets see, that's two points that I can now (according to my promise, see, poetically, my history) go and use to randomly mod down some randomly selected posts that probably deserve the opposite.
I suppose I could redeem myself in the eyes of these children and possibly reverse the above score by explaining (and giving three or four examples) of the kinds of things you hear from Google employees when you share a taste for coffee and when you happen to work across the street from their headquarters in Manhattan.
But why bother posting that kind of thing here, where it would be most assuredly lost in the effluvia of adolescent males?
Feel free to mod this down too. I've got five points left at the moment and so far only two have been accounted for.