We’ve seen a fair share of Kindle Jailbreaks over the past few years, but Yifan Lu’s (evidently the first) for the Kindle Touch is certainly novel in its approach. As The Digital Reader points out, a sizeable chunk of the Touch’s software is essentially a string of pseudo HTML5 and JavaScript webpages — differentiating it from Kindles prior — which led Lu to notice an exploit rooted in its …
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