[KwartzLab] The hackability of the Playbook

[doug moen]

No guarantees that Dingleberry will ever work again. RIM may be more
competent than Apple at writing secure code. And there are probably
way fewer people trying to find security holes.

On the hardware side, ifixit.com gives the Playbook a 7/10 hackability
(repairability) score:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/BlackBerry+PlayBook+Teardown/5265/1

Doug.

On 12 November 2012 12:44, Kyle Spaans <kspaans at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:35:18PM -0500, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>> Is my statement in any way correct?  Would you classify the Playbook
>> as "hackable"?
>
> I assume you're familiar with Dingleberry? (http://dingleberry.it/)
>
> It did (and perhaps will again?) allow you to root a PB, giving you root access
> (for better or worse :P).
>
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