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The T-Mobile G1 has been jailbroken, or at least root has been obtained in a few simple steps to provide full read and write system access to the device. It's easier than you might imagine.
Back in August when Google released the Android 0.9 SDK Beta it posted
an open letter to the security community inviting them to Hack the
Android. Now it looks
like someone has
taken them up on their offer and done just that!
Just as Apple has discovered, when you lock
down such a device there are plenty of people willing and able to
unlock it through whatever means necessary. Indeed, when it released
the iPhone 2.1 firmware in September it took precisely one day for the
iPhone Dev Team to 'pwn' it.
T-Mobile must have been hoping for something different when it comes to
the much hyped G1, the first Android powered Google Phone to hit the
market. Especially as, in the USA for example, it is being sold locked
down with a two year
contract.
But no, the inevitable has happened and the G1 has been pwned. What's
more, according to people at the XDA-Developers Forum responsible, it
would appear to be a very easy thing to do.
Jailbreaking the Android is as simple as starting a telnet session.
Someone stumbled across this after downloading the PTerminal software
from the Android Market and realising that you can then start telnet on
the G1 and telnet to it from your PC to log in as root.
In fact, it is so easy you can sum the process up in five steps:
1. Enable G1 WiFi to provide a handset IP address
2. Restart the G1
3. Start up PTerminal
4. Type 'cd system' and enter, type 'cd bin' and enter, type 'telnetd' and enter, type 'netstat' and enter to display the GI IP
5. Use this IP to telnet to the G1 where you will now be logged in as root
Then all you need to do in order to enable full read/write access to
the Android system is type 'mount - oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3
/system' from your terminal command prompt and bingo, the system file
is remounted.
Expect things to get a lot easier, in the same way as jailbreaking the
iPhone has, real soon now. Also expect a patch from Google to close the
pwning loophole even quicker, and remember that you try any of this
stuff at your own peril and could end up with an Android Brick!
David Bass
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