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Originally Posted by Quoth
Basically you have to be more expert and experienced than the Kindle programmers and they also have to have made mistakes.
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Completely disagree with you here - this is the great asymmetry of security in general. The Lab129/Kindle Programmers have to be perfect all the time, every time... and not just in their code, but with every upstream library they bring in.
Meanwhile, someone looking for an exploit just has to find one (or, for some of these, two).
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's entirely possible that there could never again be a jailbreak for a Kindle with the current firmware.
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There are at least two jailbreak vulnerabilities in the current firmware, one of them so significant that Amazon is releasing new firmware for a 9 year old device.
With that said, the only thing that prevents new code being used for jailbreaks is feature stagnation...
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Don't buy a Kindle in the hopes of jailbreaking it especially when they now come with too late a firmware version. And don't buy a Kindle if you don't like it the way it comes. It won't get any better.
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Sadly, I have to agree with this.
Buy a kindle if you want to mess with it - you can buy them used or refurb for cheap, there's a wealth of information about the ecosystem.
Unfortunately, the choices by Amazon to make newer Kindle's disposable are incompatible with significant home brew development in the future.