Windows 8 Jailbreaking

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A jailbreak kit was developed for Microsoft Surface by XDA Developer "netham45" in 2013 (2 months after its public release). who automated the jailbreaking process with a batch file (named runExploit.bat) released as RT Jailbreak Tool Version 1 an "an all-in-one program to jailbreak Windows RT tablets using the method recently released by clrokr."

Next Web reported that Steve Troughton-Smith used it to run an early version of Apple's OS X server on a Surface tablet.

Microsoft said this isn't a security vulnerability and even applauded the ingenuity of hackers.

List of apps ported to Windows 8 include TightVNC, PuTTY, 7-Zip, Notepad++, Python 2.7.3, and Quake 2.

The kit clears on reset.

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