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Nook Torn Open, Hacked and Rooted (Wired)
Wired reports on successful efforts to hack the Nook e-book reader from Barnes and Noble. "Before you tut, toss your head and mutter 'so what?' like some petulant teenager, think about the uses. The Nook is now a computer running a full Android operating system, with a built-in, free cellular connection to the internet. It also has a battery that lasts days, not hours." It is worth noting that kernel hacker Matthew Garrett has also been looking at the Nook, including GPL compliance issues.
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Nook Torn Open, Hacked and Rooted (Wired) Posted Dec 14, 2009 16:30 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
I would not bet on "free wireless connection to the Internet".
It's not all that widely known -- mostly because it only applies to business customers -- but all the wide area wireless connection technologies going back to CDPD permitted the radios to be put on the Public Internet, or a private intranet, where you received (generally) an RFC1918 address, and had connectivity only to whatever wired networks the account buyer set it up to talk to.
Unless the people at B&N are total morons, this is how that radio will be configured as well; any access it has to the greater Internet will be via proxy, and they'll be keeping track of -- or more to the point, limiting -- what types and targets of connections there are.
So I suspect strongly that we'll find out it's not quite as clear cut as all that.
Nook Torn Open, Hacked and Rooted (Wired) Posted Dec 16, 2009 5:53 UTC (Wed) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]
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> Unless the people at B&N are total morons, >
Never underestimate the ability of any team of developers to cut corners. I have no knowledge as to whether they actually did so. The other question is how difficult it is to patch :p
Nook Torn Open, Hacked and Rooted (Wired) Posted Dec 23, 2009 2:12 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
If you mean "patch that network connection so it talks to the Internet, when B&N contracted to have it be private", then you can't; it's Out There, and would require fairly major bribery of a carrier configuration employee; tier 3 or higher.
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