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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Member since:2006-01-26
Or boyfried. Anyway, I wonder if that was actually close to being exploitable as a mobile DOS by sending text messages to millions of people with: 'reboot'.
Those devices are a new platform to excercise playful maliciousness.
Those devices are a new platform to excercise playful maliciousness.
it has to be typed on the keyboard directly.
The "girlfriend" reference is related to the article linked - where the guy who discovered the bug was texting to his girlfriend - it wasn't meant to suggest only guys have them
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2008-01-01
Or boyfried. Anyway, I wonder if that was actually close to being exploitable as a mobile DOS by sending text messages to millions of people with: 'reboot'.
Those devices are a new platform to excercise playful maliciousness.