You’re not suddenly going to run Photoshop on your Surface RT, or Call of Duty.
It’s easy to recompile an x86 program to ARM, but there currently aren’t a lot of Desktop ARM apps in existence. Third, you are still limited to Desktop apps that have been compiled to ARM. Second, you will need some developer tools to perform this jailbreak (but hopefully someone releases a standalone tool in the near future). First, you need to run the “jailbreak” every time you reboot (though it’s not like you reboot a tablet very often). Voilà: A completely unlocked version of Windows RT that will run any Desktop app. By using some fairly simple (but ingenious) reverse engineering, Clokr discovered the location of this setting in memory - and then used Microsoft’s remote debugger (usually used to debug Metro apps on a Surface RT) to execute some code that altered the value stored in memory. Secure Boot doesn’t stop you from changing the setting in memory, however - and that’s exactly what Clokr has done.
If you’ve ever wondered what some low-level exploit code looks like, now you knowNow, in theory, you could change this hard-coded setting– but all Windows RT devices use UEFI, and so Secure Boot detects the altered code and locks the system down.
