What is a trace to do? Turn to a trusty Kindle! The Kindle 3 is 10 years old, but it is still working like a champ. Mostly, it reads books. But the Kindle 3 has a keyboard! Some intrepid souls back ages ago discovered how to "jailbreak" it.
It goes without saying that anything with "break" in the name appeals to the darker side of this cap.
Along with this, the souls found it well to add busybox, dropbear, a shortcut launcher and even... for the love of all good things... a terminal that runs on the kindle's perfect, greyscale screen. Oh and there is support for Python 3.7!
With a charming interface for everyday reading and nice terminal, what more could we ask?
Well there are a few things, if it comes to it.
SMS Support
Trace has a family, and the family likes to communicate -- so the first ask is some sort of SMS support. Everyone always say "use twillo". Well twillo was gotten, but twillo must run on the 3G modem. Perhaps the modem will be so kind as to dispatch some commands if we ask? But REALLY better would be integration with Google Hangouts. While we're at it, what about voice calls? Could the modem be replaced and integrated with the builtin speaker and microphone?
Calendar
Maybe even one that could be read from the kindle reader view.
Security
Now here is where we take a long detour. The Kindle 3 has several ports open that must be investigated. What are these things and how can we keep them safe?
