So now amazon is actively attacking us whenever they can, instead of just during updates?
However, with firmware-controlled wifi hardware in many kindles, I can see these recent active attacks are most likely them taking the easy way out to complying with the recent FCC mandate that has locked down many brands and models of wireless routers to no longer allow custom firmware such as
openwrt or
dd-wrt (even though the open source firmware is MUCH more secure than OEM firmware), despite the fact that the FCC claims such total lockdowns were NOT their intent:
FCC Says It Won’t Lock Down Your Routers
Manufacturers start to lock down Wi-Fi router firmware. Thanks, FCC.
Amazon might get
MUCH MORE NASTY before this all ends, because the FCC will impose HUGE FINES if they do not comply in locking down the
wifi hardware, and the easiest way to do that is a
total lockdown.
Once again, government mandates to solve a nonexistent problem have unintended consequences that are biting us all in the behind (both amazon, and us in the kindle developer community who increase their sales AND provide their customers with free technical support).
As I posted before, amazon staff gave us (me, verbally) permission to share firmware images for "repair purposes", and they have also referred folks in their support forums to my "simple debricking" thread in the past. I find it sad that amazon is trying to take the easy way out, instead of just locking the wifi power and frequency adjustments (perhaps with a "binary blob" wifi driver), which is all the FCC demands of them. Sadly, their efforts are doomed because somebody could ship a kindle to the wrong country, and the wifi would violate radio rules whenever wifi is enabled, despite a total firmware lockdown.
Which all means we will have to work much harder to find new jailbreak methods AND to preserve our jailbreaks with firmware update "bridges", perhaps just giving up in the end as so many open source wifi router firmware developers have done...