PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 6, 2011 @06:08AM from the hacksaw-is-in-the-cake dept.

Trailrunner7 notes that some dedicated hackers who've been working on jailbreaking RIM's PlayBook tablet have now "posted a detailed walkthrough of how users can accomplish the same task on their own. The technique requires the use of a custom tool, but otherwise is fairly straightforward. One of the researchers, known as Neuralic, posted the walkthrough to Pastie.org Tuesday morning. In order to begin the process, a PlayBook user need to first install the beta 2.0 version of the PlayBook software and then install the Dingleberry tool, which exploits a weakness in the PlayBook architecture which stems from the fact that the backups the device takes aren't signed."

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Dingleberry? Really? by gstoddart · 2011-12-06 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny

No wonder people are unwilling to use OSS tools when they have such horrible names.
I mean, really, when you pick a word like that normal people are going to stay away from it.
Seriously, that's just nasty.

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Re:That's great but.... by Kamiza+Ikioi · 2011-12-06 06:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Hey, good job on the hack. But how many people own a PlayBook?
All 5 of them are super excited!

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