RIM Investigating BlackBerry PlayBook Rooting – Dingleberry Gets Official Website

Dingleberry website

RIM has come out and confirmed that they are aware of the Twitter devs/researchers who claim to have jailbroken/rooted the BlackBerry PlayBook. Their statement below says they are in contact with one of the security researchers about the vulnerability and are aware they plan on releasing a tool to jailbreak the devices. Check out the full statement below:

Research In Motion (RIM) is aware of a claim made on Twitter by security researchers working together that suggests the ability to “jailbreak” a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The term “jailbreaking” is commonly used to describe altering the software on a smartphone or tablet in order to obtain access to systems or applications not officially authorized or distributed by the manufacturer. BlackBerry smartphone users are not affected.RIM is currently investigating this claim and has been in contact with one of the security researchers to discuss it.

RIM is currently not aware of a jailbreak being leveraged by anyone other than the researchers, who claim to have performed a jailbreak on their own BlackBerry PlayBook tablets only. If it is determined that the claim is accurate, RIM will follow its standard response process to develop and release a software update that is designed to minimize adverse impact to our customers or carrier partners. RIM is aware that the security researchers have stated they intend to release a tool to jailbreak the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. If such a tool is released, RIM will investigate it.

The security of mobile devices and major networked systems is tested by third-party security researchers every day. RIM also continually tests the security of its own products, and volunteers its products to recognized industry experts for security testing and certification to help identify possible issues. RIM is committed to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and to working with researchers to continue to protect our customers."

They more or less confirmed the same thing to Reuters. It should be interesting to see how RIM handles this. I cannot think of a previous case where RIM has faced anything like this other than the WebKit browser issue in BlackBerry 6 devices.

On a side note one of the researchers has confirmed on Twitter that the official Dingleberry PlayBook jailbreak site is www.dingleberry.it

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