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Reversing Everything
Personal blog · igorsk.blogspot.comsecurityprogramming
Reversing Everything is a personal blog at igorsk.blogspot.com about security and programming. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Reverse Engineering the Kindle format and Defeating its DRM”. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's Kindle reverse-engineering posts, covering loading Mobipocket DRM-protected books onto the Kindle, jailbreaking efforts, and access to the bootloader and Linux shell.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Yet another reverse engineering blog
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse Engineering the Kindle format and Defeating its DRM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-12-14
What Hacker News says?
I don't think their drm has been hacked in the sense that it can be removed. Basically, people discovered how they could load mobipocket protected books onto the kindle. People still haven't figured out, however, to copy drm'd books from one Kindle to another. http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindl...
Comment linking /2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindle.html
on “Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device”Submitted Reverse Engineering the Kindle format and Defeating its DRM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTrue, but keep in mind that, to do that, I would have to return the [Kindle] I dunno, it is a computer system. As far as I know, it's not jailbroken yet, but there are folks working on it: http://igorsk.blogspot.com/search/label/kindle
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on “Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens”Submitted Hacking the Kindle Part 3: root shell and runtime system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe keyboard is useful for: * taking notes * using experimental web browser over free evdo * accessing the boot loader and linux shell http://igorsk.blogspot.com/
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on “Amazon Kindle 2 on its way”