Google fixes world's most stupid bug

Dashken · 12th Nov 2008, 05:12 PM

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Google has issued a fix to the G1 handset, to stop it executing commands just because they appear in an entered text message - preventing punters from rebooting the handset just by typing the word "reboot".

The bug can hardly be called a security problem, given it requires access to the handset, but the fact that until the fix was issued today any G1 user typing a text message containing the word "reboot" would see their phone resetting is truly stunning, and it reflects badly on the quality control and testing of the Android platform.

Of course, not many messages contain the word "reboot" - though probably more than contain the word "cancer", which also appears in the T9 dictionary, and at least one G1 user (Worst. Bug. Ever. | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com) discovered that the proclivities of the handset could drive you to use the word in a text message. It's hard to imagine the circumstances under which one would want to send a message containing "rm -r", but stranger things have happened.

To its credit Google has already got a fix out, though it seems some related issues (Issue 1207 - android - Google Code) still exist, but such a stupid flaw should never have made it into a released product - perhaps Google is taking the idea of the perpetual beta a little too far. ®

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mikegas · 12th Nov 2008, 05:25 PM

Just like chrome .. they have to have secret codes in the handset... lol

g0tanks · 13th Nov 2008, 12:25 AM

Lol, that is really the most stupid bug i've ever heard of.

Chai · 13th Nov 2008, 12:48 AM

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Google is taking the idea of the perpetual beta a little too far

lee_what2004 · 13th Nov 2008, 01:35 AM

weird bug

should make it into windows too as web filter, wrong word, reboot!

generalRage1982hrv · 13th Nov 2008, 03:14 AM

strange but funny hehehehhe

Zenphic · 13th Nov 2008, 11:12 AM

Atleast it wasn't something like "format" lol

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