Thanks alot Justin, it was helpful Sincerely Ray
On Jun 11, 7:13 pm, "Justin (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because while a privilege escalation is, as you say, not particularly > > likely, it wouldn't be necessary if the user could just plug their phone > > into a PC and do 'adb shell'! > > As hackbod noted in the current SDK the shell exposed through 'adb > shell' is running as root. This won't be the case in the 1.0 release. > 'adb shell' will run as its own user, and therefore not have access to > an application's files. > > > What I mean is , if the mobile device running android is connected to > > PC (or other device) as secondary device (analogous to secondary hard > > drive) > > In this instance, access to the internal storage would still be > mediated by Android. The internal storage would not be exposed as a > "dumb disk". Any means of accessing the filesystem would require a > process on Android and therefore be under the restrictions discussed. > > Cheers, > Justin > Android Team @ Google > > On Jun 11, 8:55 am, David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Justin (Google Employee) wrote: > > > [...] > > > > "Safe" is vague. Based on hackbod's information it would be nearly > > > impossible to gain access to an application's private files. However, > > > there are always extraordinary possibilities such as a privilege > > > escalation exploit allowing a user or process to gain root or the user > > > physically modifying the devices and removing internal storage media. > > > Both of these possibilities are extremely remote. > > > Is it likely that production phones will have the debug interface? > > Because while a privilege escalation is, as you say, not particularly > > likely, it wouldn't be necessary if the user could just plug their phone > > into a PC and do 'adb shell'! > > > -- > > David Given > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
