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Basically every device for which some kind of rooting tool exists is vulnerable.

Most if not all rooting tools work via the debug interface. One rather clever app -- if you have USB debugging turned on -- would essentially do a localhost debug connection to exploit this, but generally these are ADB exploits. This has nothing to do with native versus managed, and native provides no additional opportunity than managed.

I replied to the original post because there is a pretty prolific belief that native=crazy dangerous. Yet of course the iPhone has entirely native apps, and we've had native sandboxing and rights restrictions since...what...the creation of UNIX?



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