Few days before we just got the news that Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system has been jailbroken. Security researcher clrokr claims to have developed a way to allow unsigned desktop applications to run on Microsoft’s ARM-based OS by modifying a setting.
This vulnerability could allow Windows RT to run ARM compiled desktop apps. This needs to be executed each time the OS is booting up and will persist until reset. The XDA developers have released a jailbreak tool for this!
Irish programmer Steve Troughton-Smith has tried on his Surface tablet the jailbreak, and found that he was able to run an early version of Apple’s OS X server operating system. Can we expect this to be a friendly for desktop apps in Windows RT, until Microsoft plans to fix the patch?!
Source : On the Surface of Security, @stroughtonsmith , XDA Developers
Via : The Verge
