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Windows RT Jailbreak Tool Released
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow for the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications. Microsoft quickly issued a statement saying it does not consider the findings to be part of a security vulnerability, and applauded the hacker for his ingenuity. Now, a Windows RT jailbreak tool has been released."
They don't have a lot of choice. The 'hack' leverages the debug support. Can't remove that support while they desperately need devs and it won't be easy to safely plug exploits via it. While the debugger is available there's no point blocking the exploit, it's certain another will be found as quickly as they can fix them.
In a few months when they've had time to decide if RT is worth continuing expect them to do something drastic disruptive to block jailbreaks. While it's struggling there's no point.
They could also just be reminding everyone that this "feature" is not officially supported. It's very possible that there are legitimate reasons to change the implementation of the security mechanism in ways that break the tool.
Keep in mind they didn't take any action against the homebrew Kinect stuff.
I was not used to that behavior... Things change at Microsoft!
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Actually it looks like it does from my own examination of a Surface - it's just locked so that only Microsoft can use it.
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