How the Kindle Touch jailbreak was discovered

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The Kindle Touch has been rooted! There's a proof video embedded after the break, but the best part about this discovery is that [Yifan Lu] wrote in-depth about how he discovered and exploited a security hole in the device. The process begins by getting a dump of the firmware. If you remove the case it's not hard to find the serial port on the board, which he did. But by that time someone else … [Read more...]