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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RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open source.
by Kroc on Sun 9th Nov 2008 19:47
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RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open source.
by google_ninja on Sun 9th Nov 2008 23:48
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RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour
by aesiamun on Mon 10th Nov 2008 01:33
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RE[4]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour
by capricorn_tm on Mon 10th Nov 2008 06:50
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RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour
by joshv on Mon 10th Nov 2008 04:21
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RE[4]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour
by christianhgross on Mon 10th Nov 2008 08:26
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RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open source.
by christianhgross on Mon 10th Nov 2008 08:24
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Oh give me a break...
As one Android individual said to me, "This will the hotest phone on the planet! Bigger than iPhone!"
YEAH RIGHT!
What the Google people need to do is get back to planet earth... This company reminds me very much of Netscape in its heyday.
Around 1996 I attended the only conference Netscape ever held. And it was at that time I said, "Netscape is dead." While Google might not be dead, Google is not going anywhere quick...
RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open source.
by ari-free on Tue 11th Nov 2008 06:55
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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.