Finally happened, and THIS is why they patched it to take away any easy method of getting root in the first place... (to those that are/were upset that Google/Moto would do such a horrible thing as patch their security flaws...
The Mother Of All Android Malware Has Arrived: Stolen Apps Released To The Market That Root Your Phone, Steal Your Data, And Open Backdoor | Android News, Reviews, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets, Tips, Mods, Videos, Tutorials - Android Police
Yeah, I hate those !@%$ people that ruin the party for all the rest of us...
So this means that Google now needs to add an official way to root Android safely and securely, right?
There is no such thing as rooting safely and securely. All Google needs to do is update to the most recent kernel and give us su or preferably sudo with the option of multiple user accounts and password protection. This was one of the two reasons I started the project. I really wanted a recent hardened kernel. Android's sandboxing is pretty easy to crack out of, hell if you make an app on your computer and chmod it to run as root you get root on your phone. The most recent kernels have remedied the former issue, but the latter issue has been a feature of unix since the sixties, so is also a feature of linux.
Really, if we want a safe way to root, we would need to fork Android and really do some hardcore work on Dalvik and get the kernel up to speed. Also, an init that doesn't let every orphan process live till the end of execution would definitely help out both security and battery life aspects (this is my guess why the Obsidian rom sucks juice like it's going out of style).
