Kindle Paperwhite Forensics

[knc1]

Nice job.
Hope your instructors like it also.

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The Kindle devices are also a good example of a little discussed (outside of "special interest" groups) trend in consumer electronic devices - -

Outside of the people who make use of the tools and after-market additions provided here, the Kindle's behavior is under the control of the vendor (Amazon).

But this is a **purchased** device, not a **leased** device. Ownership of the device was transfered in return for payment.

Which leads to the question: "Who owns the behavior?"

Amazon clearly thinks that they do.

**This** special interest group clearly thinks that the device owner does (or should).

Without the owner taking control of the device's behavior (such as its automatically installing different software without the owner's knowledge or permission) -
The owner may suddenly discover that a feature (say, collections management) may have changed or disappeared from the last time they used the device.

This is a much more subtle and far ranging trend in consumer electronics of all kinds than just the question of what sensitive (in the mind of the owner) information is left on the device and/or shared with the vendor.

Q: "Who owns the behavior of a purchased electronic device, the vendor or the device owner?"

Might be a few research papers in that question.

[zxczxc]

Originally Posted by chooko

Well everyone, I finished my paper and submitted it!

be careful... a mistake in the 2nd sentence - 'with more than 1,000,000 book available'... but cool, i'll read the rest