Amazon Dropped Device Encryption From Fire OS Before Apple-FBI Case

Good move when suddenly encryption is a hot topic Amazon...

 

I unplugged the Fire Stick my son gave me for the holidays. Hardly used it anyways.

 

Round of applause for Amazon

 

Their devices stink big time. Amazon is showing their true colours. Imagine all of the jobs the West will lose in the long run if this weakening of security becomes the norm. The stupid are running the world. It's getting tedious.

 

Nice move Amazon.

 

Well duh. How else will the Government know "users similar to this user looked into these topics..."

Basic customer service folks. Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

How else are they supposed to use your data to deliver targeted advertisements to you for "deals" on their website?

 

Now Trump will force muslims, mexicans, drug dealers and terrorists to use Amazon products. Great!

 

Can't can't even see where Amazon thought this was a good idea.

 

But I run KODI on my fire stick and this is an outrage !!!!

 

lol, wow. They remind me of that nerdy kid in school that, when a bully walks up to them with a mean face, they instantly start crying and hand over their lunch and money. lol

(I was that kid)

 

**** just got real.

 

Terrible timing. Was the Amazon support actually from the AWS division, rather than the Amazon commercial division?

Unfortunately, this may be a "good" business move for Amazon in an attempt to secure government-sector market-share in the future. Depending on the FBI case outcome, there may be local governments "up in arms" about encryption and they will want to put their money where there mouth is... maybe become the next Blackberry-style alternative?

 

Blackberry? RIM had some of the best data encryption around.

 

Implementing and then deliberately removing encryption? WTF are they thinking?!

 

The picture I have in my mind of the average fire tablet user is someone looking for dirt cheap and really not caring about anything else. I don't think many of their users are going to care. That may not apply for fire stick users though. Seems a large number are buying them to hack, although at that point isn't the capability of fireos out the window anyway?

 

IDK, seems to me it would be the opposite. The government hates keeping any data unencrypted. It's what makes their attempts to have all of our devices unencrypted seem especially stupid.

 

Yes, and the government did not have a problem with it at the time and still do not to this day. The only people who still regularly use Blackberry these days seem to be government-related in some capacity.

Yes, this is very true for federal... but maybe certain sectors of local governments who are up in arms against Apple (and encryption) want to start seeing what a world without encryption really looks like?

 

That may be unlikely since they care about their devices being secure, just not yours.

 

What's the big deal? Those who want encryption on their tablets or phones or whatever devices shouldn't buy Amazon Fire products. It's simple. It's not like Amazon advertised or touted the encryption feature before, like Apple and Google have.

 

This would make a great T-shirt!

 

And yet Amazon filed (through a consortium) an amicus brief in support of Apple and security. Way to play both ends Jeff.

 

Slow clap for Amazon.

Really bad move considering Fire tablets are used quite often by kids. Wait until the story breaks that people have been spying on kids via the cameras in the Fire. How? Oh, because Amazon decided to drop encryption for Fire OS.

If that ever happens (and I suspect it's only a matter of time), Amazon's tablet business will suffer a huge blow...perhaps a death blow.

 

This news doesn't surprise me.

Bezos and Amazon are curled up with the Obama administration in corruption. That's why their share price is $500, when it ought to be $50.

The day that Bezos is removed from Amazon will be a good day for justice.