Monthly Archives: August 2011

Rooting the Droid 3

Posted on August 25, 2011 by drosenbe

The Motorola Droid 3 was released July 14, 2011, and has no public technique available to get root access. On request of some members of the Android community, I decided to audit the platform in order to root the device.

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WP: Safe or Not?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by drosenbe

During the course of kernel exploitation (or some other form of runtime kernel modification), it is frequently desirable to be able to modify the contents of read-only memory. On x86, a classic trick is to leverage the WP (write-protect) bit in the CR0 register.

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