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Droid 4 root method now available
by Richard Devine
Feb 11, 2012
We only got the Motorola Droid 4 officially a day ago, but today we see the release of a root exploit for the device, courtesy of security researcher Dan Rosenberg.  That's good news for y...
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Google pulls Market apps with root exploit -- one patched in AOSP, but you probably didn't get it
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 02, 2011
Someone contacted Android Police with a list of applications that contain malicious code to root your device, and this has resulted in Google using the kill-switch and  pulling 21 applications fr...