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Re:Why Google Did Android by practical_lem on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#22290831)
Source? I could understand (!) `reboot` (with backticks) evaluated by mistake inside a shell script; but still reboot needs high privileges.
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Re:Why Google Did Android by ChrisClark on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:54PM (#22291441)
Yeah, it ran everything you typed as root.

So open up a chat app, type return, reboot, return. Tada.

I can't find some original sources, but there is a summary I found on Slashdot. https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/08/11/08/1720246/bug-in-an...

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