On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Is an interesting feature and for sure it will be useful for many people > (include me and I think in speakers with demos). But I need to ask > somethings that I can't understand at all. It says on the page that > activating this feature will erase my data information. > > Quote: >> >> For security reasons, enabling this mode is going to wipe device data. > > I mean, that is a bad point for a useful feature. What is the security > reason to erase my data after enable this?
By enabling full DevTools access (via this button), all private data of any app can potentially be accessed via DevTools. So, to protect the majority of users from an attacker going into the settings and flipping a switch, we currently require a data wipe so that it is clear the user chose to have this mode enabled from the beginning. Of course, I completely understand that this is not very convenient. I am hoping we can find better ways in the future to make the devices more hackable without this kind of inconvenience. This at least makes it *possible* for many users who previously had no option at all to reach the full / unrestricted DevTools mode before (since they all required a hardware root before). > Other question is, there is a > possibility to "unroot" my device after I rooted it? A way to get my device > unrooted? Other button maybe to do it, or the same button to revert the > changes? At the moment, there is no button. However, once you've rooted in this way, you can access the devices prefs in WebIDE, and set the phone back to limited mode. File a bug in Firefox OS :: Developer Tools if a revert button seems useful. > The root could be a word confusing for people at first. The moment when I > saw that button I though "Yes, I will root and update my device". Root my > device (# access in the shell). I agree it could be confusing, as "root" has another meaning already. For Firefox OS, this is a lot like a shell root, in that the DevTools can do many powerful things in this mode. If you can think of a better phrasing that also fits in the small width available, I would be happy to change it. - Ryan _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
