Is your phone rooted? Android - IPTABLES - Droid wall and why you should use it

[Christopher Browne]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:38 PM, ted leslie <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> haven't rooted my htc desire hd  yet, plan on doing it eventually ....
> why does this app. need phone to be rooted? surely a app. to protect
> the phone
> should run on a unrooted phone .. maybe no one has made a app-store
> app. like this yet? or is it a case were phone has to be rooted for it
> to work period?

iptables modifies kernel configuration, which is pretty "root-worthy".
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