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Originally Posted by Ruskie_it
To make it clearer (and also to verify I understood the current situation): jailbreak, like all jailbreaks and cracks in the world, used a "hole" in the standard coding, a flaw, however you want to call it, something that allow the developer to break in and gain "root access".
With this latest firmware, Amazon has closed that hole; therefore until someone finds a new hole, we're all screwed. Actually it isn't with this latest firmware, but with fw 5.4.something, right?
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Mostly correct. Even 5.4.5 allowed downgrading (like, to vulnerable firmware revisions) via officially signed update.bins, which is a fairly large security hole itself.
That was fixed in 5.6.1