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08-11-2014, 11:50 AM
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/gV46a7kZSgNMkeZt4faAxw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/silent-circle-blackphone.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/world-most-secure-android-phone-gets-rooted-just-153049347.html)That sound you hear is BlackBerry executives cackling madly. N4BB points out that hacker @TeamAndIRC managed to root the Blackphone in just five minutes by enabling the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) without unlocking the bootloader.- In a followup blog post, Blackphone praised @TeamAndIRC for bringing these issues to its attention but also added that “turning ADB on is not a vulnerability as this is part of the Android operating system” while noting that it “turned ADB off because it causes a software bug and potentially impacts the user experience.” Blackphone also said that it had already released a patch to fix another critical flaw that @TeamAndIRC found before he even showed off his results. Even so,-BlackBerry will likely use this



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