Windows Phone is Jailbroken

It’s only a week out of the door and already Microsoft’s new smartphone OS has had the jailbreak treatment.
Long Zheng has reported that an Australian hacker called Chris Walshie has discovered a way to run “native, unmanaged code” on the handsets.  This will allow users to run whatever software they want.  The method involves manipulating a DLL file called “Microsoft.Phone.InteropServices” which then allows users root access to the device.

The hack would allow people to change things such as the default search engine away from Bing.
At Windows7News we wouldn’t recommend doing this unless it’s absolutely necessary, and we can’t see any situation where it would be.  Apart from invalidating your warranty it would make the phone very insecure and vulnerable to malware and viruses.
At the moment Microsoft have strict controls over their app store and what software can and can’t run on the OS, much in the same way that Apple does and Google doesn’t.  Smartphone OSes are the current big target for malware writers because of how they are now used for things such as financial transactions.
It’s also likely that Microsoft may soon patch this hole and there’s the threat that they could follow Apple and lock jailbroken phones out of the Zune and App Marketplace ecosystem altogether.
Microsoft have not yet commented on this but we’ll bring you more information on this story as it develops.