That sound you hear is BlackBerry executives cackling madly. N4BB points out that hacker @TeamAndIRC managed to root the Blackphone in just five minutes by enabling the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) without unlocking the bootloader. In a followup blog post, Blackphone praised @TeamAndIRC for bringing these issues to its attention but also added that “turning ADB on is not a vulnerability as this is part of the Android operating system” while noting that it “turned ADB off because it causes a software bug and potentially impacts the user experience.” Blackphone also said that it had already released a patch to fix another critical flaw that @TeamAndIRC found before he even showed off his results. Even so, BlackBerry will likely use this
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