Amazon Thinks Fire OS Users Do Not Need Privacy at All
These days’ number one news is; the battle between Apple and FBI about the iPhone that belongs the shooting suspect in San Bernardino. Many think that Apple should help FBI to hack the device, but lots of Apple user or Android user do not agree with this hack.
These days’ number one news is; the battle between Apple and FBI about the iPhone that belongs the shooting suspect in San Bernardino.
Many think that Apple should help FBI to hack the device, but lots of Apple user or Android user do not agree with this hack. No matter, people agree or not on this issue, all two sites want that authorities catch the people responsible for this attack, but many don’t want any access to their cell phone device. Even many of us don’t have any critical information that concerns a threat to the society in our phones but still we want to keep them to ourself.
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But Amazon thinks otherwise, a couple of days ago the company quietly dropped the encryption support for Fire OS devices. Later they added, devices will have the feature soon. For now, Amazon will encrypt your data on external servers, but locally the data in your Fire OS devices would not be protected, your information will be on a plain page. So, do not put any information data of yours in a Fire OS device. This last update makes Amazon devices like a child toy.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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