Thread: Can a Kindle get a virus?
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Old 12-31-2011, 11:29 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Troubble is while Kindles are very popular the operating system (OS) is not something that amazon will tell you or anyone else a lot about, this is something that a hacker would need in order to write the virus.
Er, you do know that the Kindle runs Linux, and that its source code is freely downloadable from Amazon's web site, don't you?
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