John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Mon Oct 3 10:40:03 CDT 2011
"If you're concerned with online privacy, I simply wouldn't use the Silk browser in its full mode. To Amazon's credit, you can opt out of Silk's cloud-enhanced mode. To quote Amazon, "You can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or 'off-cloud' mode." Paranoia is great. Does anyone really think that Apple gives the same consideration with the Mac/iPhone/iPod/iPad? Since they pretty much force you to use Apple services by setting them as defaults, for almost everything, they are collecting data about everyone in a much more succinct manner. They are an inline hardware/OS/software/service and sales stack. Amazon finally joins them in that stack (although it isn't as complete as Apple's) and immediately they get smashed for it. If only Amazon had thought to form a technological cult for protection from this kind of slander (like Apple did ;o) I wonder if this article was written on a Mac. While I also don't trust any large corporation, I realize that as soon as I connect to a web site my ISP (presently AT&T) know about it. I can't think of a large corporation I trust less. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 7:19 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] FW: Amazon Kindle Fire spies on your internet traffic 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