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A jailbreak for Google's Android

Daniel Fleshbourne   via InfoWorld on 06 November 2008 - 10:11 · 2 comments & 1842 views

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Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get around restrictions created by the phone's designers.

The hack gives G1 users a way to read data on parts of the phone that are normally walled off and could be used to install new programs, or even a new operating system, on the mobile phone. Currently, programs for the open source Android operating system must be written in Java, rather than other popular programming languages such as C or C++.

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#1 +karma on 06 Nov 2008 - 11:56
Was always a matter of time till this was done. It is always the case
#2 OnyxAlien on 06 Nov 2008 - 17:52
Android is open source, so why is it worth noting that someone read the source code and figured out a way to change it? If this is not the case, then why "hack" it when the source is available? It's almost like saying that I modified Slackware's source code to add <insert feature>. Meh...

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