Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 3 08:47:57 CDT 2011
;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 5:56 AM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FW: Amazon Kindle Fire spies on your internet traffic But Jim, that tracking will help Amazon to contribute to "The Semantic Web". /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 03-10-2011 14:18 >>> 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com