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Re:Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag by malnourish on Sunday December 11, 2011 @04:52PM (#3341216)
What a great, simple (not to diminish in any way), hack.

Why did Amazon allow a call that always runs as root?

Is it necessity, oversight, or something else?

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Re:Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag by lmm on Monday December 12, 2011 @08:26AM (#3343458)
dbgCmd() suggests it was originally there for debugging. It runs as root because the UI runs as root, AIUI.
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