Thread: Amazon Removes Encryption Fire OS
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Old 03-04-2016, 01:59 PM   #7
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As Wired points out, Amazon actually, very quietly dropped encryption last autumn and it went largely unnoticed until now:
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/amazon-...nothing-apple/
I suppose if they had made a big announcement about it they would have come under fire and knew it, so they did it under the radar, but it has come out now at a particularly bad time for them with the Apple thing going on.

If Amazon thought this was a good idea they should not have been so secretive about it. Makes you question their motives.

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Amazon does not appear to have mentioned the removal of full-disk encryption from Fire OS in any public materials related to the update, which has been rolling out to the company’s products since September. Customers seeking an explanation of the change on the company’s support forum are unanswered.
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...logy_b-gdntech
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