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Re: Chuck gets an iphone

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Paul Rubin wrote:

> Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> writes:
>> Even so, I think an Android phone is much more suitable for a
>> 'hacker' type (in the old meaning of the word) like Chuck. The Apple
>> is a very neat *consumer* device. Brilliant. But hackers, I imagine,
>> would find the Android platform more hackable.
> 
> Android doesn't seem like that much of an improvement; one should not
> have to "root" (break security) on a "hacker's" phone in order to
> program it.

You don't have to "root" an Android phone to program it yourself.  All 
you need is to tick a checkmark in the settings.

I rooted my Android devices for rather the opposit of "breaking 
security".  Tools like LBE privacy protection allow much better control 
of what apps can do (like reading my contacts), but they require root 
privilege to do so.  The rooting procedure consists of installing su and 
budybox; su is an app that grants apps root privilege when they request 
it *and* the user allows that.

A rooted Android is typically more secure than a non-rooted one, due to 
add-ons that help to protect security, but won't work on non-rooted 
systems.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Chuck gets an iphone Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-27 16:46 -0700
  Re: Chuck gets an iphone jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 10:57 -0700
  Re: Chuck gets an iphone Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 09:28 -0400
    Re: Chuck gets an iphone Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-30 08:50 -0700
      Re: Chuck gets an iphone Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 18:13 -0400
        Re: Chuck gets an iphone Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 00:49 -0700
          Re: Chuck gets an iphone Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-01 01:12 -0700
            Re: Chuck gets an iphone Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 02:05 -0700
              Re: Chuck gets an iphone Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-01 08:23 -0700
                Re: Chuck gets an iphone Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-01 17:31 +0200
                Re: Chuck gets an iphone Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 09:05 -0700
                Re: Chuck gets an iphone Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-01 18:52 +0200
                Re: Chuck gets an iphone Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-01 09:10 -0700
                Re: Chuck gets an iphone vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-02 15:52 +0000
              Re: Chuck gets an iphone Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-02 22:34 +0200
                Re: Chuck gets an iphone rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 18:09 -0400

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