Yesterday we were explaining how the new Kindle Fire HD tablet would be supplied with a locked bootloader to restrict the installation of third party or home-brew applications on to the Amazon tablet.
Well it hasn’t taken long for hackers to find away around the locked bootloader of the Kindle Fire HD 7 inch tablet, with full instruction on how to do it published available for all.
The new Kindle Fire HD tablet exploit is actually based one that was found on the Transformer Prime in Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system by sparkym3.
For full details on the new Kindle Fire HD tablet root details jump over to the Android Police website, but remember that Amazon mat patch the vulnerability within a future software update.
Source: Liliputing
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