Amazon botnet blogpost

That's what you get for using proprietary garbage.
That's what you get for taking license agreements seriously.
That's what you get for taking wifi security seriously.
That's what you get for trusting the network.
That's what you get for using proprietary garbage as a router.

Go back and crawl under your rock that you came out of for the first time since the 90's.

While I agree with you 100% a lot of people compromise on things and accept partial botnet even knowing what they're doing. Look at all the security researchers who use iOS and Macs.

If I could find a nice modern e-ink reader device without any wireless networking which took PDFs over USB or on an SD card I'd love to get one. I have half a dozen Sony Readers from the pre-botnet era but their batteries are all shot and impossible to replace.

Now address the secret corporate partnerships and laws which might compel access...

He has a deal with langley spooks

You can read a book on anything. I used my NDS Lite to read novels via Moonshell. Even an old PDA would work fine. Just need to convert the ebook to plain text, if it's another format.

The only thing explicitly trying to "opt out" accomplishes is raising a red flag that you're someone to be inspected even closer.

Reminder that Amazon can remotely delete stuff on your Kindle (as happened with a book by Orwell that wasn't properly licensed) and that Amazons knows which passages you highlight.

law enforcement isn't a "secret" conspiracy you moron

Yeah let's just give Peter Strozrk or whatever his name is access to everything. And Reality Winner.