[yifanlu]

Originally Posted by Sir Alex

@yifanlu, it's not a secret. See my how to: http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewt...=577761#577761

Someone named "David West" emailed me this. It's to find your password using the serial number. I don't know if he minds me posting it, but he does, contact me and I'll remove it.

I've been studying the recovery-util with objdump, hoping to find a backdoor way to enable full MMC0 usb export without having to go through the serial port. I didn't find such a way, but, I think I've got a working command line to generate a password from a serial number:

$ python -c 'import hashlib,sys;print "fiona%s" % hashlib.md5("%s\n" % sys.argv[1]).hexdigest()[7:11]' B00XXXXXXXXXXXXX
fiona828b

Can you confirm if this method works for you? (I don't yet have a k3w or serial adapter with which to try yet.)

I also believe that the following MAY be the root password on linux:

python -c 'import hashlib,sys;print "fiona%s" % hashlib.md5("%s\n" % sys.argv[1]).hexdigest()[7:10]' B00XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Again, I would like to get my hands on one of those serial plugs for the Kindle. Any details, OP?