BTW, this has just been covered on the largest german-speaking IT website:
http://www.heise.de/meldung/Sicherhe...h-1636888.html
I guess this puts a bit more pressure on Amazon to finally roll out a fix for the issue: "Gegenüber heise Security erklärte Amazons Sicherheitsabteilung, dass sie bereits an einem Patch arbeitet." -- "Amazon's security department told heise Security that they are already working on a patch".