Skip to content

LockerGnomeFor serious tech professionals with a silly side.

Search LockerGnome

Email address

Hacks & Builds Software Security Infrastructure Tools & Gear Retro Weird Tech Developer Tales Drama & Failures

Get it by email

Sign up for weekly digests.

Email address

Search

Home/e-readers

Tag

e-readers

1 story

The Shadow Kindle Jailbreak Gets Root Over USB With Decoy Folders, a Leaky File Date and One Extra Parameter

Sponsors

Sponsor LockerGnome

Seen by the people who keep systems running: IT pros, sysadmins, SREs and DevOps engineers. One slot in the sidebar on every page.

YearlyBest value · save 44%

$83.25/mo

$999 billed yearly · 5+ months free

Monthly

$149/mo

Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

Buy monthly →

Latest

The Shadow Kindle Jailbreak Gets Root Over USB With Decoy Folders, a Leaky File Date and One Extra Parameter
Rod Burlamaqui's arc-rebar Script Gives an Intel Arc B580 Resizable BAR on a 2015 Supermicro Board With No BIOS Option, Taking VRAM Bandwidth From 15 to 392 GB/s
Bruce Ediger Built a Million-Page Fake Website as a Trap and Caught One Coordinated Crawler Reading It Rank by Rank From 7,690 Contabo IP Addresses
Ransomware Hit Welsh Local-Government Data Unit Data Cymru Through a Test Account Named Test2 With the Password Password1, Left Active for 12.5 Years
Enkiplate turns an Inkplate 4TEMPERA e-paper touchscreen into a Japanese flashcard deck that climbs from kana to kanji at 12 new cards a day

Get it by email

Sign up for weekly digests.

Email address

Patch this today

Broadcom VMware ESXflaw under attack · added Oct 28, 2026
Linux Kernelflaw under attack · added Oct 28, 2026
Adobe Commerce and Magentoflaw under attack · added Oct 27, 2026
Google Brotliflaw under attack · added Oct 27, 2026
PHP Group PHPflaws under attack · added Oct 26, 2026

End of support

Microsoft Windows 11 23H2 (E)days left · ends Nov 10, 2026
PostgreSQL 14days left · ends Nov 12, 2026
PHP 8.2days left · ends Dec 31, 2026
Windows Server 2016 (LTSC)days left · ends Jan 12, 2027
Kubernetes 1.35days left · ends Feb 28, 2027

This day in tech history

1998 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act becomes law

Related to the top story

USB went from 5Gbps on AMD's 2011 chipset to 80Gbps, and the USB-IF now says "USB4" and "USB 3.2" don't belong on the box
ESP-Watchtower turns a $3 ESP8266 into a home-network tripwire with a fake Telnet shell, a fake router login and a fake security camera
Windows' Swift Pair pops a friendly 'connect?' bubble for any nearby Bluetooth keyboard, and a $10 chip is enough to be that keyboard
GMO Internet Pulled the Plug on All 26,739 Servers of Its FX-Trading Cloud Desktop After Attackers Planted Malware, Traded on Customer Accounts and Demanded $50 Million
Kevin Coleman Clicked a Fake YouTube Support Ticket, and the Phishers Left Their Own Passkey on His Google Account: a Way Back In That Needs No Password and No 2FA

Most read this week

Tiny Computers folds the iPhone Duo into a pocket 1984 Macintosh, Commodore 64 or Windows 95 laptop, keyboard and all
Triage only sends you the bug reports that crash again on a clean machine
Apple Music's 404 Page Hides a Working iPod, Down to the 5-Second Hold That Unlocks Brick
ZacOS 9 redraws the whole Mac OS 9 desktop for Debian Linux, with a SheepShaver for the real classic apps
AI data centers now need their own special gray paint

Trending tags

ai retro open-source security apple open source agents gaming linux web

Take me to a random story →

Making tech fun since 1996.

Sections

Hacks & Builds Software Security Infrastructure Tools & Gear Retro Weird Tech Developer Tales Drama & Failures

About

About LockerGnome Corrections Privacy

Follow

X @lockergnome Patreon Donate RSS Every story

© 1996–2026 Chris Pirillo/ search jk stories ↵ open