Re: [ilugd] Opinion solicited for an article
Rooting an android device is not straight foward yes or no. As tech savvy individuals of this forum, we would say yes. But android is not desktop linux where you may want to control every thing. Android is consumption device, giving chance to user to consume voice conversations with friends or facebook. Few brave souls will always root their devices and some will even go further and install cynogen mod which is whole custom build. As my understanding goes google discourges rooting. Sadly manufactures of devices don't provide upgrades which devices are capable of cornering consumers to rooting and unofficial builds corner On Feb 23, 2013 12:30 PM, "Priyanka Sarkar" wrote: > Dear All, > > 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. > > > Regards, > > Priyanka > > ___ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > ___ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Opinion solicited for an article
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > 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. > I need a 'Like' button for this response! ___ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Opinion solicited for an article
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
