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TALK · April 1, 2009 · Shibuya.pm (Tokyo Perl Mongers)

Beginning Kindle Hackery

“I can't possibly brick my Kindle with the keyboard, right? ”

331 slides from Jesse's Shibuya.pm talk walking through hands-on modification of the Amazon Kindle 2 — undocumented debug commands, USB networking, custom software, and the ethics and limits of hacking a closed device. Closes with the question of whether intensive hacking on fundamentally locked hardware is ever worth the trouble.