Priyanka Sarkar said on Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:31:45PM +0530,: > One of our journalists is doing a story on 'How safe is rooting > your android phone? Or is it worth rooting your android > phone. Would be great if we get some great inputs from you on the > same. Please let us have your your opinion/ views.
Responses should go to?? This list? IMDO (in my dumb opinion), all of us here have root on our servers, laptops and PCs, and they (at least those in hands of sensible owners) are as safe as a fort. Any rooted android device ought not to be any different. AFAICt, safety (of _my_ data on _my_ device) and rooting _my_ device are unrelated. What is probably relevant is having to run binaries from questionable and unknown (to _me_) source code which has access to the data and capabalities of my device. For example, look at the "Choota Bheem" app on the Play Store. It wants permissions to make calls - that is right - make calls. I put the phone on airplane mode before my kids' hijack it (the device). Such apps which hide what they do from _me_ are more a threat to my device than rooting it. I am no dev; just running purebreed android (currently, gingerbread) android on a device which came with Froyo. (Hope to run JB 4.2.2 by the time you get to read this). ;-D And a 12+ year user of Debian GNU/Linux on my PCs. (apologies to the list) -- Mahesh T. Pai || A closed mouth gathers no feet. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
