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RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken
Trailrunner7 writes "A group of researchers is claiming that they've found a root exploit that enables them to jailbreak the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet made by Research In Motion. In a video demonstration of the jailbreak, one of the researchers shows off the ability to change the settings on a PlayBook and says that he also has the ability to install the Android Market app on the tablet."
Best Buy is trying to dump these for $199.
Only about $99 too high for me.
Not for everyone else -- they're sold-out almost everywhere.
Still, RIM is on track to convert to Android.
In what twisted world? RIM has the most advanced, capable, and secure mobile OS around! Switching to Android would be taking a massive step backward.
And privacy isn't much of a problem for RIM any more. They are no more or less secure than Facebook
When it comes to mobile security, RIM is still #1 -- oh, and no other player even comes close. To compare the historically masterful security of RIM to the joke that is Facebook is like saying Fort Knox security is on-par with a hide-a-key rock.
their corporate clients are losing any hope of being safe from the prying eyes of sovreign states.
Oh, FFS, this nonsense again? As always, if you're running BES you're secure. No Government can spy on you. RIM can't give away the keys because they don't have them.
I know that it's fun for you to bash RIM. However, security and their new OS are two of RIM's massive strengths (they've been leading the competition here for years). You should try picking on them for actual weaknesses, you might have more success.
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