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Originally Posted by MaPePeR
My motivation in asking this:
I want to be as free as possible and so i want not do things that will brick it, instead of doing only things, that will not brick it.
But therefor i need to know, what i need to do to brick it.
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English is not your native language, is it? Not that I'm in a position to judge..
From what I read, I guess you want to know the things that can seriously damage/brick your kindle - so you know what to avoid doing.
The "good" news is that problems in scripts and careless messing over SSH can really screw up necessary files or even filesystems. With a single wrong dd-command you can erase both kernels and all data.
I've never heard of "dangerous" webpages but if the browser has security issues, they could be a problem. I'm thinking executed scripts of funny letters in download filenames.
"Dangerous" books (or PDFs) may be fun too, but again I think that the reader is too capsuled from the rest of the system to allow such damage.
The "bad" news is that - like geekmaster said - the freescale mx50-line has a USB-Downloader mode in hardware so that even with everything else lost, you can still put the Kindle into that mode and then use custom mfgtool-profiles to access the kindle, load a flashing tool and recover things.
I'm at that point currently, myself: None of the kernels load and even fastboot (which normally is safe as hell) doesn't work.
This is also a situation in which the serial port could allow you to recover the system in ways impossible using other means.
A complete bricking without hardware failure is seen as impossible at the moment. Still, it is possible to put the Kindle into a configuration that needs a lot of work to recover from (in case of the custom flash-configuration also a lot of reading freescale documentation and trying things).
Regards,
TCC