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Originally Posted by jhowell
Amazon's new $50 Fire tablet was quickly jail-broken and rooted. They sold a lot of them and there are a large number of Android hackers who were interested in making that happen.
Kindle devices are much less mainstream and there is only a small developer community interested in hacking the latest models.
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There is a lot of interest in hacking the Kindle, as is well-known on these forums. Amazon has worked hard to stop the device being hacked. It is nonsense to suggest otherwise.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
Sure there is a risk of breaking something, but even a software-only jailbreak risks bricking the device.
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It is obviously much more risky and scary to open a device and to start altering the hardware then it is to apply a pre-prepared software hack. Again, it is nonsense to suggest otherwise.