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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2006-01-17
Wow. A phone that will turn your sms into scripting.Still, Linux shell commands aren't so similar to common language so disasters should happen rarely. Except for giving instructions on how to do something in the shell
Anyway, Android phones are still new, not that there are millions of them around waiting to execute root commands.