We have seen a good share of
Kindle Jailbreaks over the last few years, but
Yifan Lu’s (evidently the primary) for the
Kindle Touch is definitely novel in its approach. Because the Digital Reader points out, a sizeable chunk of the Touch’s software is largely a string of pseudo
HTML5 and JavaScript webpages — differentiating it from Kindles prior — which led Lu to note an exploit rooted in its browser. It’s there where he found a function titled nativeBridge.dbgCmd(), which’ll run any ol’ shell command as root. Armed with that knowledge, Lu crafted the jailbreak by cramming his payload of HTML and JavaScript into the ID3 tags of an easily downloadable MP3 file. There’s not much to be gained from “playing” that MP3 just yet, but Lu’s hopeful for developers using the tools had to write programs for the device. Full information about the jailbreak are located at source link below, but before you head off, you are able to catch the video proof after the break.
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