I doubt RIM started jumping for joy on this news but one of the main developers for the Dingleberry BlackBerry PlayBook jailbreak, @cmwdotme, announced that he is working on BlackBerry 10. He is just starting with what he calls step 1 which is extracting RIM’s BlackBerry 10 file system which he provides the tool for on Github. This is still way too early for any speculation on him being successful. Still its a sign that RIM’s BlackBerry 10 OS will be tested for jailbreak exploits just like Apple’s iOS. RIM has been doing a much better job of interfacing with security researchers recently so lets see how it goes.
Hopefully RIM built BlackBerry 10 with sufficient protection to withstand these sorts of attacks. RIM is using many open source libraries and utilities in BlackBerry 10 not to mention including Flash support. This makes for a pretty large attack surface and it is most likely inevitable that versions will be exploited. Still the extent of the exploits and RIM’s ability to quickly patch them will be key.
What do you think? Who will persevere in this cat and mouse game?
narci Not Registered
Posted: January 9, 2013 at 11:57 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9900 | OS 7.1.0.714
Is it a true jailbreak without access into the kernel and/or bootloader?
joski ( View Profile) - Posts: 8
Posted: January 9, 2013 at 12:01 PM EST
I predict failure, just as this failed on the PlayBook OS.
All the power to the guy and whatever inspires him, I just hate this coming up because it’s so Androidy and trashy. The only benefit I would ever see from this would be USB host but I don’t think that ever worked even when Dingleberry DID work on the PlayBook.
The only time I ever saw USB host on the PlayBook was the Arduino demo with the sensor on a servo and something about zombies and milk or something like that.
As for Dingleberry, it should just finally drop and be flushed. OH! See what I did there?!
lenwe Not Registered
Posted: May 13, 2013 at 5:00 PM EST
Joski, it wasn’t actualy USB host. There’s Accessory Development Kit support out there. Check it out: http://lenwe.net/2013/02/interfacing-blackberry-smartphones-with-other-devices-using-usb-connection-arduin/
dimm0k ( View Profile) - Posts: 86
Posted: January 9, 2013 at 12:33 PM EST
I believe Dingleberry also gave PlayBook owners such as myself access to Hulu…
Amir Saad ( View Profile) - Posts: 510
Posted: January 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9810 | OS 7.1.0.694
I think it will be a good way to prove to those who think that BlackBerry is a lot easier to hack/jail break than an iPhone, let’s see how far it will go this time and…if it works for him, I hope they can patch it up before launch. Well, I don’t think it will affect us users in anyway.