Hackers Update PlayBook Jailbreak Tool After RIM Closes Security Flaw
Less than a day after Research in Motion patched a flaw that allowed users to jailbreak the PlayBook, hackers have found another security hole to exploit.
On Dec. 5, a team of hackers, led by "Neuralic," released Dingelberry, a jailbreak tool, to make it easier for users to jailbreak their own PlayBook tablets in order to gain root access on the device. The team had initially posted a video demonstrating a successful jailbreak a few days earlier.
One of the things users could do with the jailbreak was to access the Android Market and download applications onto the tablet. While RIM is building Android support in PlayBook OS 2.0, users willing to hack the tablet's OS could take advantage of the hundreds of thousands of applications on the Android Market without waiting for the OS update.
