Tinkerers have only had their hands on the Google Glass "Explorer Edition" for a few days, but they've already found a way to achieve root on Google's much-ballyhooed face-computer, granting full access to the device's Android operating system.
The hack comes courtesy of legendary iOS jailbreaker Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, who tells Forbes that he cracked the device using a known exploit used to get root on Android 4.0, first discovered by another hacker named B1nary. Freeman says it was a simple task, accomplished in a matter of hours by fooling the device into thinking it's actually an emulation instead of the real hardware. Since emulations are used for testing, all permissions are granted and root is achieved.
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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4272312/hackers-get-root-access-on-google-glass
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