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Android - Worst Bug Ever

Shoesy

Shoesy

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=680

Apparently certain builds of Android released in the wild execute everything you type in a shell running in the background as a superuser!

(via Waxy.org / ZD.net)

Funny story behind finding this:

I was in the middle of a text conversation with my girl when she asked why I hadn’t responded. I had just rebooted my phone and the first thing I typed was a response to her text which simply stated “Reboot” - which, to my surprise, rebooted my phone.​
 
What bug? It's just a feature of that particular build 🙂

Reminds me of the original iphone OS that ran everything as root.
 
I think jailbreak is a fairly generic term these days that means getting around whatever security is in place. Pretty much like "bricking" a phone means "uh....it don't work" these days instead of what it's supposed to mean. Windows Mobile phones ask you if you're sure you want to run whatever application if it's not signed and it's the first time you've run it. There's a double probation secret registry setting you can change to get rid of that and this is probably the same thing.

By the way, should the title of this be "Worst bug since iPhone did it?"
 
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Wow. That's funny.

By the way... the iPhone never did this.
 
To whomever this may apply to: The article is about the Google Android G1, not the iPhone, which never did this.
 
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