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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If you have a Kindle connected to the Internet, Amazon can theoretically do anything. They wrote the firmware. Their servers have keys to allow the servers to access Kindles.
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Theoretically, yes.
The same is true of US public libraries, and many in other nations. It is against their policy to persistently store what you read, but policies can be violated.
Some bookstore clerks and librarians have excellent memories.
Some people who pass around anti-regime literature, in repressive countries, will turn out to be spies for the regime.
Perhaps a dictatorship will one day see a Kindle in persistent Airport mode as worth investigating for that reason.
This isn't meant to minimize Oibgzfka's concerns, but only to point out that there are always tradeoffs, and no absolute safety when you read anti-regime literature in a country that is now repressive, or becomes so.
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Originally Posted by Oibgzfka
Can anyone see anything when I have the wi-fi on? How?
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It depends how good the security is of your WiFi, and who this anyone is. Correctly configured WPA2 WiFi security is supposed to be unbreakable with current technology. Could there be an exploit known only to national security of the US, Russia, China or some other country? Probably not, but who knows?
In theory, there could be roving trucks going around trying to find people who read forbidden literature. Even if regime spies couldn't break properly configured WPA2, it is easy to make a mistake, such as using a password that isn't as good as you think. In practice, the roving truck idea is probably too expensive, which is why the Great Firewall of China works more at (from their point of view) prevention than making arrests.
Essential context is that Amazon, and the US president-elect, are allegedly, according to US mainstream media, in a (I hope metaphorical) war.* So whose side you are on, in this dispute, could matter.
I think it would be easier for a repressive government to physically seize your device than to get the contents from Amazon. But given what you wrote earlier in the thread, don't you know that?
One can't stand up up to tyranny without taking risks. That's a fact. Of course, the risks should be prudent. Which governments are repressive enough to deserve your bravery is a subject for a political forum, or for the Politics and Religion area of Mobileread.
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* If this is news to you, I would google to find relevant articles.