Root a NOOK Tablet with just an SD card

Barnes & Noble has been playing a bit of cat and mouse game with NOOK Tablet hackers. When the company released the 7 inch Android tablet in November, it didn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to sideload apps, root the tablet, and even install the Android Market.

Then Barnes & Noble pushed out a software update which made doing all of those things much more complicated.

But now that hackers have figured out a way around the NOOK Tablet’s secure bootloader, it’s possible to load software on the tablet simply by placing it on a properly formatted microSD card and rebooting the tablet with the microSD card installed. Now Indirect, one of the most prominent NOOK Tablet hackers, has released a tool that lets you root a NOOK Tablet using a microSD card.