Google sending out update RC30 to stop root access

[ayo991]

Originally Posted by trinybwoy

are you serious????

i am not against google for pushing out OTA after OTA..
But these are trivial things compared to the glaring problems the phone currently has.
FIX the freaking issues, and make ur customers happy.

3 OTA's have come out since the phone's debut, yet my battery life still sucks, i cannot close applications when i want, and the phone is severe memory leaks.

I agree. Fix the problems. A security hole is not going to hurt me.

[soldair]

hey all. I am really confused by some posts by a few members speaking about this as a "security hole".

in order for this to become a security problem you would have to turn on telnetd and forget to turn it off.

Because telnetd does not auto start a simple reboot would be enough for even a lazy person to "re-secure" their phone.

Google wasted time stopping people from using their own device with no security gain.

There is no gain from either the providers or Google by locking users out of the filesystem.

[smoger]

Originally Posted by soldair

hey all. I am really confused by some posts by a few members speaking about this as a "security hole".

in order for this to become a security problem you would have to turn on telnetd and forget to turn it off.

Because telnetd does not auto start a simple reboot would be enough for even a lazy person to "re-secure" their phone.

Google wasted time stopping people from using their own device with no security gain.

There is no gain from either the providers or Google by locking users out of the filesystem.

..except for the fact that *everything* you type goes through to the shell....