Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted 62
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users kinfaus and pokey9000 were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7 Kindle Fire and the 7 Kindle Fire HD) come with more sophisticated protection than their predecessors, including locked bootloaders and 'high security' features offered by their OMAP processors. Today, the devices have been rooted."
Using a known bug in busybox dating to April even.
Re:I wouldn't have been able to post first .... (Score:5, Funny)
...which, apparently, it hasn't.
Re:and it'll keep getting worse (Score:4, Funny)
What I see when I hear people whining about why they won't use ___ because it isn't "open enough"
I want an Open Toaster. All toasters are locked down and proprietary, and I want to hack my toaster so that I can use it to toast my mittens and socks. That's why I won't own a toaster. My BBQ does all these things and more! I've even built it myself, and it runs on Charcoal, Pellets, OR Natural Gas, giving me much more flexibility in my toast making endeavors. And when it snows, I like the fact that I can clear the snow off using my specially made "snow removal device" that I hacked together myself.