T-Mobile G1 Rooted 246
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CmdrTaco
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An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile's G1 phone, the first commercially available Android based phone, has been rooted. The exploit is extremely simple to execute, just requiring you to run telnetd from a terminal on the phone, and then connecting to the phone via telnet."
Coral to the rescue (Score:4, Interesting)
Coral Cache [nyud.net]
On a side note... a hyphenated domain name! How retro...
Re:No, you don't have to run as root first. (Score:1, Interesting)
Actually, the only weird thing is that telnet can listen on port 23 (but removing the privileged-ports-for-root-only rule might make sense on a phone). Telnet often exec()'s /bin/login or similar, and if that file is setuid root...
Re:No, you don't have to run as root first. (Score:4, Interesting)
Just about everyone in the robotics community calls them humanoid robots anyway. "Android" and "droid" are pretty much confined to sci-fi, and by the time we have real androids, I'm pretty sure this phone OS will be a thing of the past. Sure, Ishiguro's current work in this area is pretty interesting, but even those robots are only mistaken for humans from a distance, and they aren't mobile.
Re:Haha this was such a non-hack... (Score:3, Interesting)
Next time, just run out and patent the idea. You could make some money.
Re:BUT TEH GOOGEL BE TEH DUNT BE TEH EVEL!!!111!!! (Score:2, Interesting)
I want complex moderations.
(+i, Imaginative)