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		malnourish on Dec 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag What a great, simple (not to diminish in any way), hack. Why did Amazon allow a call that always runs as root? Is it necessity, oversight, or something else?

lmm on Dec 12, 2011 [–]

dbgCmd() suggests it was originally there for debugging. It runs as root because the UI runs as root, AIUI.

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