It is a developer managed to get the Kindle Touch e-reader to jailbreaking. Before that he used a mp3-file where the required commands in the id3-tag were placed. May Amazons e-reader now epub support.
The hack of the Kindle Touch is claimed by developer Yifan Lu. He placed a few commands in the commenttag of the id3 meta-data in an mp3 file is found, after which he roottoegang knew how to get on the e-reader of Amazon. The operating system of the e-reader may be subject to other via ssh to be accessed.
The released jailbreakcode contains, on a modified screen saver after, still no concrete additions to the operating system of the Kindle Touch, but Lu writes on his weblog that the OS is heavily reliant on html5 and javascript. As a possible useful hack is among other things adding epub support called. Such add-ons can Java be written.
