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Massively Parallel Procrastination

An ethical quandary

It looks like I'm pretty close to being able to start a telnetd on the Kindle2 and build an update package so that others could do the same.  From comments on engadget, hackaday and other news sites reporting on me showing users how to type a few debug commands, it's become really clear that many users want to try to get free 3G broadband using their Kindle as a modem.

That's not a behavior I want to encourage or be responsible for.

How can I help advance the state of the Kindle homebrew ecosystem without encouraging/enabling behaviour that will cause Amazon to lock the Kindle down like an iPhone?