On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM, J T Dsouza jtd1959@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:36 AM, J T Dsouza jtd1959@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <efyedit6@efyindia.com 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. :)
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Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065