Linked by David Adams on Sun 9th Nov 2008 16:50 UTC, submitted by Hakime
Bugs & Viruses 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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capricorn_tm
Member since:
2005-12-31

Dear Lord, my friend!

You think our good friends at Redmond are aware of this very truth?

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aesiamun Member since:
2005-06-29

What Microsoft product comes with a two year contract? I have yet to have to sign anything and lock myself into a provider for 2 years just to use something from them...

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