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10th November 2008 - Link Blog

Worst. Bug. Ever. Android phones were executing every keystroke typed in to the phone in an invisible root shell! Text “reboot” to a friend and your phone rebooted. Wow.

Posted 10th November 2008 at 10:51 pm

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