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Worst. Bug. Ever. Android phones were executing every keystroke typed in to the phone in an invisible root shell! Text “reboot” to a friend and your phone rebooted. Wow.

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3 comments

  1. Hrm, I'm pretty sure there have been worse bugs out there than that. Besides who even has an Android phone? The badness of a bug is based on how many people it effects and how badly. For example almost nobody has been touched by this bug and even if it bricked the phone it's really not that bad. users * sevarity = badness

    Noah - 11th November 2008 00:42 - #

  2. um... dude, hundreds of thousands of us have android phones. 400k were sold before the first one hit a store front.

    joe - 11th November 2008 03:04 - #

  3. I'm guessing Noah meant at least it didn't kill three people.

    Passer-by - 14th November 2008 03:53 - #

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