Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion
Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion
Posted Jul 25, 2009 20:04 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion by felixfix
Parent article: Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion
as long as someone else can update the software on your machine without you approving the update, they can do anything to your machine.
it doesn't matter if it's a phone, e-book reader, DVR, or general-purpose PC/laptop
it also doesn't matter if the someone else is amazon, microsoft, redhat, or ubuntu.
so if you are worried about what they _can_ do, you need to first disable automatic updates.
only after you do that can you start arguing about any capabilities of their software as it's currently deployed