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Old 02-09-2016, 09:48 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Given the fact that your Kindle is already jailbroken, there's no reason not to use the browser.
Yes, there is.

Now that a complete, working, worked example of how to remotely run arbitrary code on 5.6.5 as root is public -
It is entirely possible that someone will put that to malicious purpose.

I.E: It is a general thing, leveraging a problem in the webkit/javascrpt build used, not specific to jailbreaking.

We have alternate browsers posted, one of which has already been reported as working (skipstone).
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