Thanks Dianne and Chris. I really appreciate your replies :) On Nov 9, 5:42 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:18 PM, scoleman95 <[email protected]> wrote: > > aww come on Dianne help me out here LOL..ok let me rephrase this > > question.. Is there any way to stop rooting of a device and if so how? > > Actually my answer is the only one there is. An Android user build doesn't > let users or apps get root. Anything that is getting root is exploiting a > security hole. Thus to prevent things from getting root, you need to ensure > there are no such holes. > > If you care about security on your device, they are a few big things you can > do to improve it: > > (1) Be aggressive about delivering platform updates to the devices, since > these have security fixes. > (2) Contribute any fixes for security issues you find to the platform. > (3) Make sure that the implementation of Android on your device follows the > same security approach as Android: as little as possible running as root, as > little as possible signed with the platform cert and running as the system > uid, no back-doors to allow your code to do things that normal applications > can't, verify the drivers you get from the hardware vendors don't have big > security holes, etc. > > However, you clearly can't guarantee there is no security hole, so the only > honest answer to your question is "you can't." > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them.
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