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Title: Amazon disabled encryption on its Fire tablets and phone because nobody used it Post by: HCK on March 06, 2016, 09:00:14 pm Amazon disabled encryption on its Fire tablets and phone because nobody used it
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Amazon caught flack on Wednesday for disabling the encryption capabilities of its Fire phones and tablets with a software update. The company says its reasoning was simple: people didn’t use it.</p><p> “In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, we removed some enterprise features that we found customers weren’t using,” Amazon spokeswoman Robin Handaly wrote in an email.</p><p> Those “enterprise features” included one that allowed users to encrypt their entire device with a PIN that would erase all their data if not entered correctly 30 times in a row. </p><p> The issue surfaced recently because Amazon just allowed older tablets—the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and the Fire HD 6/7—to upgrade from Fire OS 4, the previous version of the company’s Android fork. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3040742/tablets/amazon-disabled-encryption-on-its-tablets-and-phones-because-nobody-used-it.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Amazon disabled encryption on its Fire tablets and phone because nobody used it (http://www.macworld.com/article/3040742/tablets/amazon-disabled-encryption-on-its-tablets-and-phones-because-nobody-used-it.html#tk.rss_all) |