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Originally Posted by jete
Done 1 & 3. I'll take care of 2 later ...
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Thanks!
The title used by ebs came from early in our learning about Amazon's data mining efforts.
At that time, "Big Brother" was referring only to the sending of log files to Amazon.
As the extent of Amazon's data mining operation has grown with time, so has our usage of the "Blocking Big Brother" phrase.
"Blocking Big Brother" now means (here) doing a lot more than just changing the logging behavior.
Plus - -
Changing files in the file system image provided by Amazon has been found to cause no end of grief for the end-users.
We avoid doing that now, anytime that it can be avoided.
Most of those files are on a check-sum manifest on the Kindle -
Older devices will either error out on an attempt to do an Amazon update or just "brick" -
Some of the newer devices have a "boot to: 'return to Amazon for repair' state" on a checksum manifest failure.
Translation of the above: You might want to reconsider how you write up step 1 (now that I can read it - thanks again).
I am not really trying to be difficult here - just trying to be helpful.
A lot of this stuff was learn the "hard way" here over time.