Thread: Howto recompile opensource firmware for KOBO reader
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Old 05-14-2015, 10:27 PM   #5
davidfor
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Originally Posted by fastrobot View Post
Not to mention that Kobo does things like requiring a person to be logged in, in order to read DRM books; which means that if I put down my Kobo reader for a moment, while I go get something -- or if I loaned it to one of my kids to read one of my books -- then, if it got stolen, my credit card would be totally open to theft since the user is already logged in.

There is no way to "log out" and still be able to read books. You can turn the wifi-off, but if you log out -- the books are unreadable ; so if the reader is being used, all someone has to do is turn the wifi back on -- and walah -- total access to credit card.

If I can figure out exactly how Nickel talks to the linux kernel, I can make it so that if my KOBO got stolen, at least the theif would be forced to log out and back in again before they could access the Kobo store -- which would protect my books, and my credit card from additional thefts.
I haven't tried it, and I can't at the moment, but my assumption is that if you change the password to your account using the Kobo site, that will disable access to the account from the device. If I have a chance over the weekend, I will try this with a spare device and account.

But, you can remove the credit card from the account on the site. That will stop them buying more books using your card.

For sideloaded books with DRM, they will be able to read them, but I'm not sure if they will be able to copy them from the device and read them elsewhere. The DRM removal tools use keys from the PC but I don't know if they are on the device in a way they can access them.
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