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Well that didn't take long. Only a few short hours after RIM released the latest BlackBerry PlayBook OS to help fight off the DingleBerry exploit, the BlackBerry PlayBook has once again been rooted making use of another exploit known by Chris Wade. RIM did in fact patch the previous security matter as suggested in their security article on the matter but where this makes use of a different exploit within the QNX system, it's not as-of-yet known how this one functions.
Source: @cmwdotme
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