[Noisebridge-discuss] Android question: I want to share, via wifi, my Internet connection. What's the best way to do this?

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what exactly does "rooting" do?

In this context, you need to be root to modify the routing table or
netfilter code on the phone. Most (probably all) vendor-distributed
images have access to "root" on the phone totally locked down.