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A comment on Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels. Parent comment

Re:Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels by innocenat on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:06AM (#31420327)
> Amazon apparantly makes that harder with each device

Alternative phrasing: Amazon is continuing to fix security bugs in Kindle device.

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Re:Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels by stkdump on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:22AM (#31420408)
What threat is the security for?
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Re:Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels by innocenat on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @05:33AM (#31420743)
The technical detail about latest WatchThis hasn't been published yet, but the previous KindleBrake seems to be using malicious JXR image payload via built-in browser. That sounds like pretty serious security flaw to me.
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