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Developers Find Root Access to Android G1

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LInux Pro Magazine; By Kristian Kissling 		Mail this story
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Developers of the XDA Forum found a simple hack to gain access to root privileges on the Android platform of G1 mobile phones. The result is the potential of installing and using native Linux applications on the G1 and messing things up in the process.

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tuxchick ·
I've read several articles that say Android really isn't that open, but has some very non-open restrictions including Google having the ability to remotely remove applications, and now here is a usually pretty good Linux magazine complaining about how somebody hacking their own property risks messing it up, as though that were a dreadful aberration and ought not to be allowed. WTF, people, WTF.

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