The new Kindle Fire: rooted by playing an MP3

[thewayne]

On one hand, it's cool that it can be (for now) rooted by playing an MP3. On the other, this could be a major infection vector. I would expect Amazon to patch this, but it's still interesting.

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/10/1915234/kindle-touch-gets-worlds-simplest-jailbreak

Comments

[silveradept]

Amazon will want to patch that up rather quickly, but if that kind of code is still left in the device, then it's really just a matter of time before there's a rooting method that's native to the device and can't be patched up.