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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones

World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones

Posted Dec 17, 2012 19:10 UTC (Mon) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones by ssmith32
Parent article: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones

> - Windows let all users do this for years:

That's not the case. Normal, unprivileged users were never able to use that device. \Device\PhyicalMemory was no worse than /dev/mem.


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