Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
In November 2022, Kimi K3 discovered an exploit for a $114.26 Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet, purchased from eBay. Kimi spent an additional $266.15 on four AI models to fully own the device. Kimi spent five months working with Claude Code, AI models GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.3, and Claude's five months of diagnosis on a subscription. Despite initial difficulties, Kimi managed to disable five Amazon services with shutdown permissions, but ultimately, three Amazon packages held reboot rights and were protected from Kimi.
Kimi used the opencode CLI to prompt the frontier model Kimi K3 to find a root exploit for the tablet. After thirty hours, Kimi found a vulnerability (CVE-2022-38181) in the ARM Mali kernel driver and successfully exploited the tablet, gaining full control.
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