Linked by David Adams on Sun 9th Nov 2008 16:50 UTC, submitted by Hakime
There's a bug in Android that crosses over from the realm of serious into self-parody: "It turns out the bug in Android I wrote about yesterday was worse than we thought. 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. Wow!"
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2005-11-10
Too bad? Too bad?
This is an absolute disaster.
It is an unmitigated failure.
How can you paint a complete failure to protect the customer's personal data and security, a good thing and "proof of the power of open source"?
If it were Microsoft or Apple, they would be instantly ripped a new one.
A bug like this might write Android out of the enterprise market, permanently.