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#52
Originally Posted by Navi View Post
The viruses that do exist can't do any real damage unless executed by the user as root, and the keyloggers that are available on the net are extremely hard to get working.
The first part of this is a much better answer than anything else in the thread, *except* I thought someone who seemed to know what they were talking about had already said that was easily arranged when AppMgr runs? If the above is really the answer, then I'm startled that people have presented some of the arguments they have when this one was available, especially as some as the posters obviously have developer level knowledge of the platform. And I would be very narked indeed at Nokia for not providing a discussion of the risks and benefits of root mode in the user guide, if you're right. Of course I'm already narked at them for not discussing security at all other then the previously quoted one sentence "You're screwed" warning.

Otoh, even leaving keyloggers aside - which I suspect we shouldn't - there's still the question of file snooping.

Last edited by meanwhile; 2008-04-17 at 13:38.