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Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak

Posted by Soulskill on from the music-to-amazon's-ears-i'm-sure dept.

Nate the greatest writes "Can you play an MP3 file? Then you can jailbreak the new Kindle Touch. A new hack was posted this morning that roots the Kindle Touch/K5 and opens the way for future hacks. The hacker also reveals that the K5 runs on HTML5, which should make it a lot easier to come up with new apps. Epub, anyone?"

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  1. Re:World's simplest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has the shortest name.

    "Jail ... break .. me ... dot ... com ... this is really complicated."

    "MP3 ?? ooh snazzy"

  2. Re:World's simplest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe if you knew how to spell it you wouldn't have had to waste hours.

  3. Re:World's simplest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gaol-break.

  4. Re:World's simplest? by Filip22012005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    iPhone fragmentation is becoming a real problem.

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    When the policeman of the tie, rule you violate, hello punishment of the kitty?