[dba-Tech] FW: Amazon Kindle Fire spies on your internet traffic

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 3 07:18:37 CDT 2011


Just received the following email so thought I would pass it along. 

" It would appear that surfing the web on the Amazon Kindle Fire forces you
to go through a proxy on their servers, instead of accessing the websites
directly, meaning that they can track everything you do, everything you
read, everything you write, including over HTTPS.

This is really really bad. Do not buy a Kindle Fire. I highly discourage
this.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/amazons-kindle-fire-silk-browser-has-se
rious-security-concerns/1516?tag=content;siu-container "

Thoughts?

Jim



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