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Old 12-01-2015, 12:32 AM   #10
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by dnullify View Post
Ah, i didn't realize the new firmware made serial the only way to jailbreak. I thought it was the PW3 hardware, I just assumed the natural progression regarding new hardware would be a serial jailbreak until someone figured out a new way to do it.
It's a bit of both.
The SoC has been hardened with the PW3, KT2, Voyage.
But the PW2 and later received a software update that closes the hole we used to jailbreak.

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That is definitely the most annoying thing about the kindle product line, they seem irritatingly opposed to distinguishing between iterations of hardware - it makes buying kindles on craigslist hard if you can't identify models by grainy photos (titled kindle ___ in the title).
True enough.
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