PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released

[wraggster]

Trailrunner7 notes that some dedicated hackers who've been working on jailbreaking RIM's PlayBook tablet have now"posted a detailed walkthrough (https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/playbook-jailbreak-tool-released-120611) of how users can accomplish the same task on their own. The technique requires the use of a custom tool, but otherwise is fairly straightforward. One of the researchers, known as Neuralic, posted the walkthrough (http://pastie.org/2974406) to Pastie.org Tuesday morning. In order to begin the process, a PlayBook user need to first install the beta 2.0 version of the PlayBook software and then install the Dingleberry tool (http://dingleberry.it/), which exploits a weakness in the PlayBook architecture which stems from the fact that the backups the device takes aren't signed."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1752244/playbook-jailbreak-tool-released