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Originally Posted by TadW
Even shell access could open us new doors to gain root.
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The question is which privileges the account will have.
If we only got non-root access to the device we could try to find some local exploit on the particular device with the particular system configuration to get root-access.
Press the button, install security update - be locked out of your device, have to hack it again.
I'd consider this being highly annoying and I don't see why I should buy a device I don't have full access to.
Of course I see some difficulties in keeping a person who has complete root-access from getting access to the former DRM-encrypted content that has been prepared for the presentation layer.
If iLiad trys to go the sony way to ensure that there is absolutely no way to convert DRM-content, it will fail as Sony did with their mobile audio devices.
If iLiad goes the Apple/iTunes/iPod way (do some DRM encumbering but in a more sane way), which is what I hope, it might become the iPod (or at least the wrt54g) of eBooks within years.
If they lock owners into userspace, the iLiad will fail because iRex does not have the ressources to make this expensive device appealing to regular people fast enough.