The post you linked is very different - it appears to require user interaction, which is a perfectly ok way to allow root access.
This allows any app to gain root. Without user interaction. That is insane.
This allows any app to gain root. Without user interaction. That is insane.
The only thing that is insane here is that we all deem this as "normal".
"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" [1]The update treadmill is normal, in the classic sense of the word.
Taking over something and operating it without permission is highly congruent with naval piracy. So perhaps hung from the yardarm is better. At any rate, something gruesome, public and nasty needs to happen to them.
Yes, I think the basic ... drive to do this is just latent in people, and they initially did it just for the heck of it. There was no money in it to start with.
How this could be considered anything other than deeply antisocial is beyond me.