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Minor Android bug
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… ok, maybe not so minor.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=680
http://android.jim.sh/index.php/ConsoleShell
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!
In the bug report (issue 1207) jdhorvat writes:
Funny story behind finding this:
I was in the middle of a text conversation with my girl when she asked why I hadn’t responded. I had just rebooted my phone and the first thing I typed was a response to her text which simply stated “Reboot” - which, to my surprise, rebooted my phone.
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Last edited by moep; Nov 8, 2008 at 04:16 PM.
Reason: was supposed to be a quote, sorry.)
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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!
In the bug report (issue 1207) jdhorvat writes:
Funny story behind finding this:
I was in the middle of a text conversation with my girl when she asked why I hadn’t responded. I had just rebooted my phone and the first thing I typed was a response to her text which simply stated “Reboot” - which, to my surprise, rebooted my phone.
Ug, why did you post it in code tags?
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I wrote some iPhone software and the publisher wants me to look at doing a Windows Mobile and Android port.
So far Android looks to be a mess, and would be even harder to port to than to Windows Mobile. The iPhone is honestly the best platform to write for at this point.
(In summary, I'm not a big fan of Android, despite the claims that it's better for developers.)
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the middle of a text conversation? wtf?
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Originally Posted by goMac 
I wrote some iPhone software and the publisher wants me to look at doing a Windows Mobile and Android port.
So far Android looks to be a mess, and would be even harder to port to than to Windows Mobile. The iPhone is honestly the best platform to write for at this point.
(In summary, I'm not a big fan of Android, despite the claims that it's better for developers.)
That's always been pretty obvious. The iPhone is the best program to write for with the worst developer program.
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