On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM, J T Dsouza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Easwar Hariharan > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:36 AM, J T Dsouza <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> > > Dear All, >> > > >> > > One of our journalists is doing a story on 'How safe is rooting your >> > > android phone? >> > >> > >> > Depends on what you are rooting it with. In any case all of those crappy >> > apps are actually official spyware. Someone has used the accelerometer >> and >> > the gps in an iphone to locate a person walking in gps shadow areas. >> >> Please clarify what you mean by *those* apps. Those crappy apps that >> are pre-installed on your phone or those apps that root your phone? >> >> The preinstalled ones. The ones you use to root also could be malware, and > one should be careful. > > The very fact that some device WONT allow you to be in control is a big red > flag.
Ah yes, the pre-installed apps. They're the equivalent of the crapware on PCs. General caution regarding software applies of course, whether to apps you install off the app store, or a ROM or a rooting app. It ought to go without saying. :) <snip> Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065 -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
