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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Good points, but Android is still very, very young, practically beta only. Most people haven't even considered purchasing the product yet for that exact reason.
We all know that new products quite often have many bugs, although maybe not as serious as this one, usually. Making permanent judgments may thus be a bit early.
If seen from a positive point of view, hopefully the Android team will now learn their lessons from this, permanently, and there will never be as serious security announcements for Android again. It is up to them, and only time will tell.