Hacker finds root for Samsung’s Galaxy S

We’ve seen the inside of the hardware for Samsung’s Galaxy S, and now a Russian coder who goes by the name LeshaK is ready to take you down to the core of the software — despite himself not actually having one of the phones. He’s posted a kernel that you can apply for easy unpacking or, if that’s not your thing, provided the commands you can use to do it yourself, which look to be as simple as changing the permissions on ‘su’ and then re-flashing the phone with the new, lighter restrictions. We’re not able to test this ourselves, but a few users are reporting infinitely looping reboots when trying to apply this, so we’d advise reading the entire thread on the other end of that source link before you go ahead and ruin your whole Wednesday.

[Thanks, Amit]

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