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Originally Posted by elborak
There is nothing preventing the finder of the exploit from releasing it other than his ethics. Well, that and a belief (that you may not share) that maintaining a cooperative relationship and internal communication channels with Amazon has the potential for longer-term benefit than quick release of a single exploit for a single code version. And I respect that.
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I somewhat respect that, too, but I was waiting for the jailbreak since ever I read about it here on the forums. Sorry I'm not into the format discussion, but concerning the jailbreak, having a tool I could use for jailbreaking my reader would be cool, and people not wanting to jailbreak could just not do it. Amazon would have had sufficient time to fix the issue if it's really that bad and they would certainly have enough manpower and money to throw at it, so that people not wanting to jailbreak would be safe from a vulnerable device. Compared to a hacked reader though, just imagine your IOT appliances (stove, fridge, lights at home) to act up, and I'm sure this would be more severe than a hacked reader. And I'm sure that other companies don't even care whether or not their stuff can be hacked. Amazon just doesn't want anyone to tinker with their device. So, I can understand the persons reasons not to release the hack, but I certainly wouldn't even have considered asking for permission.