Major app vulnerability that could affect 99% of Android devices unearthed

I lost my rooted phone last weekend. Fortunately, it was carrier-insured and they rushed me a new one straight away. Unfortunately, the new one (identical model to the old one) had the firmware update I'd been refusing to apply, and is now unrootable.

It's a sad reflection on the state of portable computing today that my first thought on hearing about a major security flaw was "hey, maybe I can gain control of my own computer after all!"