T-Mobile’s new Google Android phone, the G1, is not as open as you’d hope — all the good hardware is sandboxed off from the development environment and requires a signature to run. But hackers are already working to crack open the firmware. From the #android channel on Freenode:

I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code – and then blinking out the entire firmware in 0′s and 1′s on the autofocus LED – read in by a photo transistor attached to a sound cable plugged into my microphone port – and then put back into 0′s and 1′s…
Then disassembled the ARM9 code in it and worked on porting CHDK to it…
I’m pretty sure having a whole OS at my disposal should make this a lot easier

Source

[phpbay]google g1, 5, “”, “”[/phpbay]

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