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Originally Posted by Sol Arkite
I don’t dispute the community being small. I dispute amazon’s role in discouraging jailbreaking. I Asked him to look at the evidence and he responded with, “ what’s the point. Jailbreaking is insignificant because not a lot of people do it. “ You yourself have pointed out that amazon has been reeding up on the previous jailbreak methodologies, leaving behind evidence of their presence. They clearly care about what is going on.
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Ah, yes. Amazon has started to care more about preventing jailbreaks in recent times.
From January 29, 2019:
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Originally Posted by Branch Delay
Looks like Amazon is finally going to fix the ;installHtml issue. Over the last few days, one of my articles has been getting a lot of hits from lab126. (hi SBR-6729!) (Note to Amazon, might want to hide your referrers from your lab126 domain.)
Guessing they'll fix both vectors soon, finally wiping these in the factory as well as updating busybox etc.
Sort of weird it lasted this long. I assumed they were tacitly supporting the community by leaving that in, but I'm now thinking it was just lack of time.
All right, good luck everyone! Grab a jail-breakable Kindle before yet another hole closes.  |
In all fairness though, jailbreaking takes advantage of a security vulnerability.
We use it to add functionality to our devices not present in native firmware but others might use it for nefarious ends.
I don't know anything valuable that hackers can steal from a Kindle, though. Maybe Amazon login credentials or session tokens? I'd expect that info to be encrypted, though.