Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30316277-20170913112155/@comment-28829111-20170913233921

LOL LLMB - tell us how you really feel!! One thing I can say is that when the devices are backdated they introduce vulnerabilities to security. There have been many internet attacks in recent years and a lot of thought put into the security of networking software and operating sytems on the various platforms. So I am guessing that Amazon is doing this with the new Kindles to prevent the device from Denial of Service type attacks like discussed in this news story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems-attack.html?mcubz=0

I do feel for the owner, though, and can see where you might want to change your date for TT purposes and or "jailbreak" your device for other reasons - ie get at the underlying files. Also, the adware must be super annoying and intrusive. It sounds like Amazon put a body cast on which prevents all movement/control vs solving the network security problem only via a different method.