Reverse Engineer Finds Kindle's Hidden Features

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 4, 2008 @05:01AM from the under-the-hood dept.

bensafrickingenius writes "CNET's Crave site has an interesting article on Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, and the extensive reverse-engineering that fans of the device have accomplished. The site specifically points out the work of Igor Skochinsky at the Reversing Everything website. His work on the Kindle's Root Shell has revealed some fascinating goodies: 'Among the ones uncovered and described on his blog are a basic photo viewer, a minesweeper game, and most interesting, location technology that uses the Kindle's CDMA networking to pinpoint its position. There also are some basic location-based services that call up a Google Maps view to show where you are and nearby gas stations and restaurants.'"

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Nice blog and info! by Raineer · 2008-01-04 05:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

I always like to read things like this, it's stuff I am not industrious enough to do myself but certainly enjoy reading :D
Re:Flagged. by weg · 2008-01-04 07:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'd be much more worried about buying the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, The Anarchist's Cookbook, or Yertle the Turtle than Cather in the Rye.

I don't think it makes much of a difference whether you buy that stuff for your Kindle or you order the (physical) book via Amazon and they ship it to your place.

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Georg