Google’s present to attendees of its I/O conference final week was a prohibited new HTC EVO 4G cellphone. One of the lucky giftees was developer Matthew Mastracci, who showed his thankfulness by teaming up with two friends as well as hacking a ruin out of a bad small EVO.

A couple of hours after as well as the group had successfully secure a phone, as well as “managed to get a customary su tool installed.” This equates to which they had base, or super-user access to a phone and its file complement. This lets you do anything you similar to to it. Here’s a video:

What does this meant for security? Not most. If you have earthy entrance as well as the small time, you can hack flattering most any device. More engaging is the sign which a brand-new wave of smartphones – Android as well as iPhone – both use variants of a UNIX handling complement underneath a metal cover, initial developed approach back in 1969. That these modern slot miracles have been using on an OS invented before I was innate still kind of blows my thoughts.

Root upon an HTC EVO 4G! [Grack]