The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been bested by hackers already, and it’s not even out yet! German Android developers Sera-Apps have nabbed a Galaxy Tab and rooted it to gain complete control over the device, proving it’s the most flexible tablet yet.
Sera-Apps industrious coders even managed to hack a Galaxy Tab at the IFA trade show. Of course, there’s now a danger that Samsung will lock down the Galaxy Tab with more stringent security before it goes on sale officially, although Sera-Apps haven’t yet made public their rooting method, simply showing a screen demonstrating superuser rights to do anything with the Galaxy Tab’s underlying code.
By gaining root access to the Galaxy Tab, hackers have the ability to tinker with its most intimate settings, potentially enabling them to improve its performance, install custom versions of the Android OS (or any OS, for that matter) and even tweak the Galaxy Tab’s multitouch, camera or 3G settings.
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