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?
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