Disable BigBrother features

[goucla]

I'm trying to understand the syntax in the Kindle syslog file. From my deciphering, it looks like the sample syslog file identifies both the Kindle location and the cell tower location. It appears that the Kindle has recorded a connection with a cell tower at the "HDR Lat/Long" coordinates -- I used cellreception.com to identify a cell site owned by Nextel, probably leased to Sprint -- and the device coordinates locating the Kindle to a point near 20450 Stevens Blvd., in Cupertino, CA.

Does this makes sense? Can someone capture and post a similar logfile?

090719:161519 wand[1661]: I e725:diag: t=4a644ff6,SID=4183,NID=87,
Base ID=744,Network Svc Type=EVDO,Bars=5,
Latitude=37.321441,Longitude=-122.030612,
RSSI dBm=-125,Active Set EC IO dBm=-31.500000,Active Set PN Offsets=264,
HDR Latitude=37.334167,HDR Longitude=-122.031113,
EVDO RSSI dBm=-65,ASET Pilot Energy=-0.53,
HDR Active Set PN Offsets=264,DRC=2,n=1:

[Zorz]

Do you need the Usbnetwork hack to apply these hacks? How does one apply these?

[Zorz]

Originally Posted by cyli

Do the logs only contain information about content you downloaded from Amazon? Does the Kindle also log data (and send said data to Amazon) regarding, for instance, a random text file you put on your Kindle?

I second this question as well.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by cyli

Do the logs only contain information about content you downloaded from Amazon? Does the Kindle also log data (and send said data to Amazon) regarding, for instance, a random text file you put on your Kindle?

Originally Posted by LlamaZorz

I second this question as well.

From what I can tell as a customer, yes; but with a caveat. If you have highlighted or notated a non-Amazon book, Amazon will retain a copy of those notes and underlinings. Otherwise, when you delete a non-Amazon book, it disappears altogether.

I am speaking here of what is available for me as a customer to see when I log into my Amazon account. Now, whether Amazon maintains secret records on its customers, I can't say.

[Sullivan]

Thanks for the information guys and for trying to answer those questions.

[Zorz]

This hack doesn't work on the K2i, it needs to be re-evaluated.

[mjm]

any way to update this hack for the recent 2.3 update. I tried following all the scripting and stuff and gave up after a while.

I figured chmodding the showlog script to 0 would probably break things and probably be pointless given the framework account so....yeah.

what I want to do right now is set the print_stream*/print_gzip* functions to return something wacky and forget about it, but since the framework account has a login im not sure how useful that would be.

I am assuming the default account is... whats used to read books but im probably wrong about that.

now short of trying to port ipchains or ipfw or something and just denying inbound im not sure how to actually feel warm and fuzzy about all this :/

bleh. im tired, someone make this make sense :/

[kevindorsey]

We need to get something similar going for DX. I think mine is in order, but I'm not savvy enough to do all of the similar tasks on my own.

[n4ru]

Is this currently nonfunctioning on the K2(i)/DX(i)?

[Zorz]

Originally Posted by n4ru

Is this currently nonfunctioning on the K2(i)/DX(i)?

Nope, it needs to be updated. Im working on it.

[buyer12]

Any update on this?

[Zorz]

The original writer disappeared, so somebody else needs to do it. I really just dont have time.

[geekraver]

For 2.3, on my Kindle DX, I made this change right near the end of /usr/bin/showlog:

else # Sending full logs
print_stream_header `ls $ARCHIVE_DIR/${LOG}_*.gz | wc -l ` >> $OUTFILE
$GZIP_HEADER_TYPE `ls $ARCHIVE_DIR/${LOG}_*.gz | xargs ` >> $OUTFILE
fi
echo "" > $OUTFILE # GeekRaver's hax

Just the last line is mine; the rest is to show the context. That just replaces the logs with an empty string.

Earlier in the file there is a line:

OUTFILE=/dev/stdout

which I changed to:

OUTFILE=/dev/null

[meem]

Thank you.
Can you create a package for Kindle DX ?

[vugtitan]

Base ID=744,Network Svc Type=EVDO,Bars=5,
Latitude=37.321441,Longitude=-122.030612,


They can track you!That is terrifying.They can tell the police where you have been.