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Originally Posted by Waylander
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How come the genius developers here haven't managed to crack the PW2? I do actually mean that sincerely, btw, as their efforts have made the reading experience on my Kindle bearable for me, so I am very thankful for their efforts.
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Many of today's SoC (System on a Chip) devices are designed with firmware security in mind.
The Amazon/Lab126 firmwares are **not** using all of the firmware security features of the i.MX6 chip, but the design as it exists **may** make a "closed Kindle" jailbreak impractical (or even technically impossible).
The compromise that Amazon/Lab126 is making in the design allows the returned devices to be tested and to be refurbished (or to be sold to businesses that do refurbish electronic devices).
The war between Amazon and we who believe that the hardware owner also owns the hardware's behavior could get worse -
they could go all of the way to "technically impossible".
The owners of the 3G models already have an example of "technically impossible" on-board, the 3G module.
That is also an(other) SoC, and it has its internal security features enabled.
Which is why you have never seen any modifications posted to its firmware (which is re-loadable on boot).