OSNews > Thread > "RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour" by joshv

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 sour

by joshv on Mon 10th Nov 2008 04:21 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open source."

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2006-03-18

The T-Mobile G1 is less a beta product that the release version of iPhone 3G was. Now T-mobile's 3G network - *that's* a beta product.

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RE[4]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour

by christianhgross on Mon 10th Nov 2008 08:26 in reply to "RE[3]: How embarrasing, but a good example of open sour"

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2005-11-15

WTF? Are you being serious here?

The iPhone was a real product from day 1.... It might not have had all features, but it was a real product.

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