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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted

Posted by Unknown on from the meddling-kids! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users kinfaus and pokey9000 were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7 Kindle Fire and the 7 Kindle Fire HD) come with more sophisticated protection than their predecessors, including locked bootloaders and 'high security' features offered by their OMAP processors. Today, the devices have been rooted." Using a known bug in busybox dating to April even.

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  1. Re:I wouldn't have been able to post first .... by Radak · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...which, apparently, it hasn't.