Thread: What will February 28th mean?
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Old 01-31-2019, 09:16 PM   #14
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
Deliberate, in that they make an unrecoverable situation out of the failure to make the "sync" connection. I think it is unreasonable to handle the situation as they appear to have.
Deliberate sabotage, no. If anything, this is probably going beyond expectations for a six year old device.

Firstly, Kobo needs to update their servers to remove what are now considered to be insecure protocols. This is probably just as much from pressure elsewhere to get the servers "safe". I mean, with some of the ranting about security seen everywhere, if Kobo's servers are found to be running these protocols, how long would it be before this is brought up as a reason not to trust Kobo?

The problem for the Mini is that during the setup, it attempts to contact the Kobo servers at least twice. Once to see if there is a firmware update, and then to sign into the account. Once the support for the older security protocols is removed, these will fail. And the device will no longer be able to be used.

There is no sabotage intended here. Maybe there was bad design in the setup routine as there is no consideration for doing setup without a connecting to the server. But, they were sold as connected devices with the expectation that they would connect at least once to the server.

And, Kobo have explicitly stated that the desktop application will be able to be used to setup these devices after the deadline. Kobo are making sure that the device can continue to be used in the manner it was designed to be. How is that sabotage?
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