“Lundin Matthews, reader, and founder of IT company AdminRemix, told Lifewire via email.
Does It Really Matter?
A Kindle might not seem worth the bother, security-wise.
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Its just ebooks, after all, right?
For example, say a hacker develops or discovers an exploit for an older Kindle model.
The result could be anything, up to and including stealing your account details.
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Thats a definite worst-case scenario and perhaps unlikely to happen.
And even in this case, its pretty easy to protect yourself at the expense of a little inconvenience.
The clock starts counting down only after that model is discontinued.
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First, turn off Wi-Fi andif it has onethe Kindles cellular connection.
This renders your Kindle unreachable, and therefore very safe.
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You will not be able to use some features.
You will also have to deal with lock-in.
Kindle titles cannot be transferred to other devices unless you rip the copy-protection from them first.
This is one place wherepaper books are still a lot better than electronic books.
It may not be desirable or sustainable, but its where weve ended up.
And you know what?
Try that with a paper library.
