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Droid X rooted, bootloader still locked

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 24, 2010

“Android enthusiast Stephen Bird found a way to gain root access
on Motorola’s new Droid X smartphone. He ported an exploit for the
Motorola Milestone that was recently published by developer
Sebastian Krahmer.

“The exploit takes advantage of an Android flaw that is similar
to a privilege escalation vulnerability Krahmer found in udev last
year. He briefly explains the hack in a little message to Google’s
engineers that is included in a document that he distributes with
the exploit code.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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