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Originally Posted by Zorz
Do most people care? I'd contend most today no longer care for their privacy with the google and facebooks of the world collecting all sorts of data on us. We give them personal information, as well as our email. We let them record our search and buying histories, you get the point. Even if they were, it would take a lot of testing to detect. You would literally need to put the unit in a Faraday cage and listen on the GSM frequencies in which it works. It's not worth the effort to most people.
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Or given that Kindle is jailbroken, it'd probably just take a very short and trivial shell script. Or it could be opened up, and have a LED soldered onto the GSM chipset somewhere.
However if it was phoning home, people would notice. When not in use or out about, my K2i lives near my computer speakers, so I often get that typical mobile phone interference when it connects.
Zorz: It's the elected representative's failure if he places the document there. For Amazon to access it implies an ability to send a document home over wireless. Amazon would get in a lot of hot water for that unless it was declared outright. If it's a digital document, it's already been exposed to equally silly "potential exposures to private enterprise" right throughout the chain of creation, any transmission or transfer.
There's caution and then there's undue paranoia.