The hacker states he or she is releasing all the hardware and software specifications so REB owners can at least take documents and turn them into readable files on their old hardware. Books in the old file format won't work on the new readers. This means the hardware in the stores now, and older readers people own, would not work anymore with future books released in this new format. The only way to fix those, according to the letter writer, is to basically build a new reading device, file format and encryption scheme. The e-mail also states that while the hacker was figuring this all out, he or she discovered three more potential holes in the encryption protection that can't be fixed with a simple firmware upgrade.
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