Heck, they even restrict the driver downloads for Sun hardware.

Or even something as common as the decades-old BGP.

As far as I know, they can push new books to your device so they are probably able to update the existing ones.

Every time you configure a new BES e-mail account, they push a new service book to you.

They probably send you new books every time your device cold-starts (battery pull). I don't know it for sure, but most BB forums recommend fixing missing/incorrect books by doing a battery pull. Of course it could be the usual "did you try turning it off and on again?" voodoo.

"Think different"*

* provided you do so within this borders we set for your own protection

I have used it and it's pretty slick and useful, both with and without the keyboard.

I just wish they went ahead and released the 3g version already.

In all fairness, it's an Amazon restriction, not an Android one. What I don't get is why they allow the other devices but restrict Android.

Now if only Amazon would let me install the Android Kindle app in my country...

They let me my 3G Kindle, Kindle on my PC, on my Blackberry and on my iPod. But for some reason, not on the Android platform. Bummer.

Isn't that a bit unrealistic for a consumer device?

As much as I agree with that sentiment, I'll be among the first to admit that that's unlikely to happen in a reasonable time-frame in a less than perfect world.

Ugly kludge solutions will always have a place in the industry because of this.

Unless it's a multiuser system. In that case YOUR DATA may be toast but everybody else's will be fine.

Funny and sad because it's true. I've gotten that answer along with "Word", "Peachtree" and "Nero".

I remember that back in the day there was a movement to implement a distributed computing project (a la SETI at home) in order to crack the Xbox signing keys.

I guess there wasn't much support for it and other hacks were so very much available.

I think the parent's point only applies to products they intend to re-distribute, altho I don't see why. If it's in the kernel it must be GPL compliant and can be re-distributed.

Hell, yes! I'm gonna go one step further and turn off my mail servers. Good bye spam problem!

I once considered doing that. Instead I firewalled the whole network and the only way to ssh into a box is to access via VPN (with password policies enforcement instead of certificates) and from there ssh into the machine.

If the VPN is down, tough. I'll have to have someone onsite to fix things.

Of course, one size does not fit all. This is the way we chose to do this at my place of work.

Oddly I've never seen evidence of someone trying to brute-force a vpn connection.