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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CpOb1vlETIY/how-i-freed-my-android-tablet-a-journey-in-reverse-engineering
How I Freed My Android Tablet: A Journey in Reverse Engineering
An embedded software engineer at the European Space Agency shares the story of the quest to "dominate" his new tablet:Just like it's predecessor, I wanted to run a Debian chroot inside it -- that would allow me to apt-get install and run things like Privoxy, SSH SOCKS/VPN tunnels, Flask mini-servers, etc; and in general allow me to stay in control. But there was no open-source way to do this... and I could never trust "one-click roots" that communicate with servers in China... It took me weeks to reverse engineer my tablet -- and finally succeed in becoming root. The journey was quite interesting, and included both hardware and software tinkering. I learned a lot while doing it -- and wanted to share the experience with my fellow Slashdotters... He writes that "I trust Debian. Far more than I trust the Android ecosystem," and describes everything from how he probed the boot process and created his own boot image to hunting for a way "to tell SELinux to get off my lawn".Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CpOb1vlETIY/how-i-freed-my-android-tablet-a-journey-in-reverse-engineering
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