Thread: Firmware Update Kindle firmware 5.16.3.1
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Old 10-24-2023, 11:15 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
A counter argument to this is that Fire tablets also use MTP and there is no such filtering, security issues notwithstanding.

I cannot claim to understand Amazon's motivation for this change: why fix what is not broken? There are some benefits (no file corruption) but also deficits (mostly for non-Windows OS's).

I tend to agree that this is preparation for future Kindles with a different file system and perhaps OS (Fire OS lite?).
There was a comment in 5.16.2 thread saying that there are security vulnerability that can be triggered via intentionally corrupting FAT32 partition. Such attack is not possible via MTP.

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