Thread: BackDoorLock hack - prevents silent updates
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Old 02-14-2013, 12:07 PM   #13
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Version 2:
Full updates are recognized during the attempt and a countermeasure is deployed (dummy update file update__this-file-prevents-installing-on-reboot.bin is created to confuse the boot-time updater)

You can install the hack as a KUAL extension now.
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