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Originally Posted by Yourcat
Actually Kindle creates outgoing connections (to Amazon servers) which one could terminate on a local server and send custom replies. No need to penetrate the firewall. As we have seen one could delete developer keys. Locking the device could also be possible.
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The only safe thing to do is keep airplane mode on. Even secure traffic is decrypted as it travels through the amazon proxy, and they could do code injection if they wanted to. That is the price you pay for convenience, and many people openly accept those terms.
If a local server is hacked, you are doomed anyway, even on a PC. Internet explorer shows a green "secure" icon even with a bad cert if only one hop away (so your ISP can spy on your HTTPS connections and you still think your browser is secure) -- another reason to use firefox (or better, TOR).
No matter how careful you are, the NSA knows better.