VZW Trying to run their app as root

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VZW Trying to run their app as root

04-13-2014, 11:07 AM

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My Verizon Updates With 3 Widgets, Randomly Asks for Root Access

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/04/08/my-verizon-updates-with-3-widgets-randomly-asks-for-root-access/

Verizon’s My Verizon app received an update today that introduced three widget styles. You may recall that Verizon finally brought back their auto-refreshing data widget to this app a few weeks back, but this time they are giving you choices in how that data is displayed. You... #Apps #MyVerizon

And here's what it's looking for/doing.

https://gist.github.com/Tortel/10276327

TL;DR/WTF - Its checking for root by trying to execute ls as root. Its also pulling build information, debugging, model, location, screen size, you name it.
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04-13-2014, 12:17 PM

Sneaky bitches
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04-13-2014, 01:36 PM

That's not good. The only VZ app I use is My FiOS. I didn't get a super user prompt when I installed, but if I do it'll get removed.
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