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After security fix, Playbook tablet is jailbroken in one day

A hacker figured out how to jailbreak the tablet and when the security company Research in Motion fixed the hole he found in the system he found a way around it...

Federal News Network Staff

December 12, 2011 8:01 am

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Blackberry’s Playbook tablet has been rooted and the security measures to fix it aren’t enough. Info Security reports Chris Wade has figured out a way to jailbreak the tablet and when the security company Research in Motion fixed the hole he found in the system he found a way around it in just one day. Wade developed the Dingleberry tool to let him to this. Experts say the the Playbook tablet is suppose to have better security features than the Ipad.

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