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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
... You wouldn't happen to be unplugging your Kindle like a barbarian, before properly unmounting/ejecting the USB storage?
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My kindles are normally always in USBnet mode, so I have (perhaps a bit too often) been a "barbarian" with respect to not ejecting my kindle USB drive.
It has not bitten me (yet).
Considering the fact that real "Barbarians" were natural explorers, and that fact that I like to "conquer" my devices, perhaps "barbarian" is just a synonym for "hacker"...
EDIT: And unplugging your USB at just exactly the "wrong" time during the boot process might be a valid way to exploit a race condition to gain root access on a new device, so you can grab a copy of the firmware to look for "easy" exploits. 
