New third party firmware (Not HP'PRIME TEAM)

[DrD]

In the formative decades, ala 70's-90's perhaps, hacking commercial software based products, often resulted in improved utility value. More often it led to additional troubles, including outright device destruction. The 'pride of accomplishment' in hacking today's genre of computing devices seems so petty, as to be completely juvenile, and boring. If ones skills are so finely tuned in this area, why not put them to better use? Make your own calculator, with your own superior feature-set, for example. That would be far more self aggrandizing.

If you're able to improve the software, why not convert your skill to "the general good," or possible financial gain, by working WITH product design leaders? If you're not quite that good, as hackers, the production will speak for itself. In any event, just putting alien firmware out there, after spending hours and hours of devious methods, is similar to watching terrorists build an I.E.D., only to have it blow up prematurely, as society continues without further concern...