LWN.net Logo

The grumpy editor's e-book reader

The grumpy editor's e-book reader

Posted Jul 23, 2009 15:24 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: The grumpy editor's e-book reader by zooko
Parent article: The grumpy editor's e-book reader

if they have the ability to update your software, they have the ability to do _anything_ to your system.

so, unless you intend to insist that they remove the ability to update the OS, they cannot remove all ability to remove files from the system, all they can do is promise not to abuse this ability.


(Log in to post comments)

The grumpy editor's e-book reader

Posted Jul 23, 2009 21:51 UTC (Thu) by ebs (guest, #30411) [Link]

This is certainly true, so the real fix is to remove that ability from Amazon completely, or (this is what I did) at least disable AUTOMATIC firmware updates + disable that ebook removal feature.

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds