Cheri703 | I don't know how many of you folks are android users, and particularly rooted android users, but I just found the most awesome thing :D | 13:56 |
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Cheri703 | it has been around since 2010, but still awesome :) | 13:57 |
Cheri703 | http://lifehacker.com/5712406/webkey-remotely-accesses-your-rooted-android-phone | 14:00 |
dzho | disturbing | 15:01 |
canthus13 | Cheri703: I use it. :) | 15:19 |
Cheri703 | canthus13: it will be very useful for my mom's phone | 15:20 |
* canthus13 nods. | 15:21 | |
canthus13 | It's scary in the wrong hands, but then so is any remote access software. | 15:21 |
dzho | I'd be a lot more interested in it if I could run the network-side of that on my own machine. | 15:22 |
canthus13 | you can. | 15:22 |
dzho | without going through their web service? | 15:22 |
canthus13 | you don't HAVE to use their web service. | 15:22 |
* dzho looks further | 15:22 | |
canthus13 | You can use it over your local network without the web service.. and you *MIGHT* be able to use it over 3G. Sprint doesn't. | 15:23 |
dzho | > We don't plan to release the server code | 15:24 |
* canthus13 nods. | 15:24 | |
dzho | the client at least is GPL | 15:26 |
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dzho | if I can get a build that would allow me to lock out their service, that might be cool enough. | 15:26 |
* canthus13 nods. | 15:27 | |
canthus13 | Cheri703: I'd be wary of handing a rooted phone to someone who doesn't know what it means... :/ | 15:27 |
dzho | of course, that's the same logic that has verizon arguing for locked bootloaders and apple restricting software downloads to developer-signed stuff, and Microsoft secure booting etc | 15:29 |
dzho | "you can't trust anyone but us" | 15:29 |
canthus13 | dzho: I'm more thinking don't give it to someone who doesn't understand the implications. | 15:49 |
canthus13 | Doing something like what WebOS had would be perfect. Defaults to no root access, but for those who want it, they can do so with relatively little trouble. | 15:51 |
Cheri703 | canthus13: yeah, I'm going to be putting it as closed back off as possible, and she isn't going to be installing random apps | 16:28 |
Cheri703 | (sorry for delay there, was out in the garage dealing with dogs) | 16:28 |
Cheri703 | she lives in ny state, so doing remote support will be hard without this app. we use teamviewer heavily with the computer stuff | 16:28 |
* canthus13 nods. | 16:31 | |
Cheri703 | with webkey, I can also give my brother access to help if I'm at work | 16:32 |
* canthus13 nods. | 16:41 |
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