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Rooting your own phone: android security

Rooting your own phone: android security

Posted Feb 11, 2009 21:26 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
In reply to: Rooting your own phone: android security by jamesh
Parent article: Rooting your own phone: android security

> if your attack vector is just the software already on the device and java programs downloaded onto the device?

Any complex software has bugs. I would not be surprised if it would be easier to subvert a browser or JVM to execute arbitrary code than to get a root access from that code.


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