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FF2 · 02-22-2011, 07:51 PM

I know there's a long thread on "Big Brother Features" but in some other threads the issue of what Amazon collects on NON-amazon books, possibly de-drm-ed books and other info has come up.

The UNtalented amongst us would like to know if there might be a simple method to displaying the log info and possibly erasing or pruning it?

I/we don't know from the usb-networking and accessing the linux partition or boot info. Might a hack be created that at least copies the log file to the root of the kindle? Going further a hack like the new jailbreak that looks for a (blank) file called ERASE_LOG or PRUNE_LOG that could clean it out periodically?

I'm sure that I would not be the only one to appreciate such an ability. If only I had not given up programming under the IBM 360!!!!

02-22-2011, 07:51 PM	#1
FF2 Wizard Posts: 1,105 Karma: 1025784 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: WiFi Kindle3	A hack to display/ERASE the log Amazon collects? I know there's a long thread on "Big Brother Features" but in some other threads the issue of what Amazon collects on NON-amazon books, possibly de-drm-ed books and other info has come up. The UNtalented amongst us would like to know if there might be a simple method to displaying the log info and possibly erasing or pruning it? I/we don't know from the usb-networking and accessing the linux partition or boot info. Might a hack be created that at least copies the log file to the root of the kindle? Going further a hack like the new jailbreak that looks for a (blank) file called ERASE_LOG or PRUNE_LOG that could clean it out periodically? I'm sure that I would not be the only one to appreciate such an ability. If only I had not given up programming under the IBM 360!!!!