On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 5:41:38 AM UTC+2, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > 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
Why not implement a password for enabling this "root" button, erasing all user data is completely ridiculous. Just think about it, if I use the phone just for development then there is no "sensitive" data to care about, if I use it as my everyday phone and development how can one imagine that I will go through backing up all my data (which is not at the flip of a button) and restoring it every time I change roles. How insane can this be? _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
