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Originally Posted by jbcohen
In the real world one of the many hats I wear si that of an information Security Officer. As such I am quite alarmed by Amazon's ability to reach into your Kindle and remove anything they like and it implies to me that if Amazon can do that anyone can do that in any way. If I so desire I can, with the right tools, delete anything from anyone's kindle at any time. This is one of the reason why I advise people with Kindles to never use the Wifi to go directly to the internet and instead go to the internet via your desktop computer where your PC's firewall can block intruders from removing content from your kindle.
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jbcohen
"archive" folders in Amazon Kindle act like a shared folder in Windows. Technically speaking, they can wipe out or delete whatever you have there, but never from your local drive or Kindle folder (the one that you use for you downloaded books)
There was a very commented issue this year about a book that was deleted but from a user's account at Amazon. Bezos apologized and I think the reason was copyright problems. Bezos himself said that will never happen again and no one should have deleted that since the very beginning.
Now, I don't work for Amazon
... and regardless of what they say, I download my books locally and I do have 3 backups: a Linux server at home, my Ubuntu Laptop and my the laptop I use at work. Call me paranoid, but because I'm an IT person, backups are my "daily breakfast"