Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band

Re:Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band by snuxoll on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:27PM (#12057658)

While the title matches the article, it really isn't descriptive of the content of the article (which is all about modifying and flashing the ROM, there's no 'jailbreak' yet).

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Re:Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band by moyix on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:48PM (#12057792)

He achieved full code execution on the device. You can argue that it's not a jailbreak because there wasn't much of a "jail" (checksums, rather than crypto), but I'm not sure what more you would want in terms of capabilities.

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Re:Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band by lowtolerance on Friday July 08, 2016 @05:20PM (#12058725)

I disagree. The github repo he links to in this writeup contains everything necessary to install a custom firmware to the Fitness Band. He even includes the binary itself, which is probably not too smart(it would have been better to write a script to download the binary direct from MS's server). What more do you want? Cydia?

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