December 21st, 2009 by ahoogThe Nook from B&N runs Android. The folks over at nookDevs has taken the device apart, figured out how to get root (I wish it was that easy on Android phones!) and is deep into it now. We’ve long told folks that listen that Android is much more than a mobile phone OS. From a law enforcement/forensics standpoint, you can’t ignore that illegal information may exist on an Android book reader, set top box or whatever the next device will be. So you have to understand Android from the ground up. Oh, and as for the last sentence the in quote below, I might just fit the bill!
If you tear open a Nook (which the team has done) you’ll find that the Android operating system is contained on a microSD card (separate from the microSD expansion slot). From here, it’s a simple matter of using a card reader to mount this card on your computer and changing a single word in the init.rc file (the file that’s in charge of which services are begun at startup, similar to a Linux boot).
This single hack will let you plug the Nook into your computer (once you have reassembled it) and access the OS, using the freely available Google Android developers kit. Right now you’ll have to be a hardcore nerd to make much use of this…<snip>
via Nook Torn Open, Hacked, Rooted | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
