A jailbreak for Google's Android

Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get around restrictions created by the phone's designers.

The hack gives G1 users a way to read data on parts of the phone that are normally walled off and could be used to install new programs, or even a new operating system, on the mobile phone. Currently, programs for the open-source Android operating system must be written in Java, rather than other popular programming languages such as C or C++.

Details on how to gain superuser "root" access to the phone were posted Tuesday to an Android development forum. Step-by-step instructions have also been published online.

Source: hackinthebox.org