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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. World's simplest? by subreality · · Score: 5, Informative

    By what metric?

    For the user, rooting the iPhone was pretty easy with jailbreakme.com. Go there, click the button.

    Or do you mean easy for the developer? On HTC phones you basically say "Jailbreak please" and it says "OK."

    1. Re:World's simplest? by Atzanteol · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://unrevoked.com/

      Plug in phone. Run app. Make tea. Really the last part was the difficult step.

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      "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

      - Charles Darwin
  2. Re:Doubleplusgood! by subreality · · Score: 4, Informative

    When the GP said "1984 style", they were referring to the fact that Amazon actually revoked some copies of 1984 in a flash of brilliant irony.

  3. Explanation (It's quite clever) by mshenrick · · Score: 5, Informative

    for the lazy, the title just contains HTML code to create a button, which runs DD to the MP3 (minus the title tag) to a script, as the author tag is the script source, which is then executed. If you open the properties of the MP3 (OS X's 'get info' works, or you could cat it) the source is pretty well commented

  4. Re:Doubleplusgood! by sixsixtysix · · Score: 3, Informative

    in your situation, if there was a recall, the car seller would just come and take your vehicle, and leave a check and any personal items, whenever/wherever they wanted to. parent is saying that, once sold, the car seller should contact the buyers and let them know, and IF they wanted to, they can bring back the car with the faulty battery. you know, because of ownership and all.

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  5. Re:I would think that this was a major problem. by complete+loony · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't a buffer overflow, it's a XSS scripting attack. The mp3's meta data is inserted into a HTML document without cleansing it.

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    09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.