Silly Android Bug Uncovered

Ed Burnette informs us about a pretty nasty Google Android bug that starts a command shell as root once the phone boots up and sends all of your keystrokes to that shell. That may not sound like much to the average handset user, but here’s what this does: every word you type can be turned into a command and executed as such. For example if you... 

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