Why hasn’t anyone hacked the Kindle?

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You know, the Kindle runs Linux, has USB, uses all standard processors and chipsets, even comes with free built-in EV-DO — you’d kind of think that stuff (and all the rest) would build it about as high a profile target for hardware modders and hackers as there are. So what gives, why hasn’t the hacker community glommed onto that thing? Hit the poll: anyone can reply, but we really want to construct out from the über-geeks in the house why the shout to Kindle has gone unheeded.

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Original post by Ryan Block

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