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Title: Replacing Fire OS's encryption isn't enough: Amazon should turn it on by default Post by: HCK on March 08, 2016, 09:00:16 pm Replacing Fire OS's encryption isn't enough: Amazon should turn it on by default
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Fire OS 5, the latest version of the operating system that drives Amazon’s more sophisticated tablets, removed a full-device encryption option available in the previous release. Amazon says it was because few users enabled it (http://www.macworld.com/article/3040742/tablets/amazon-disabled-encryption-on-its-tablets-and-phones-because-nobody-used-it.html), but that’s the wrong way to approach encryption. A few days after a kerfuffle arose, the company says it will restore the option (http://www.macworld.com/article/3040865/security/encryption-will-return-to-fire-tablets-amazon-says.html) in a month or two. It should do even more.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3041175/security/replacing-fire-oss-encryption-isnt-enough-amazon-should-turn-it-on-by-default.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Replacing Fire OS's encryption isn't enough: Amazon should turn it on by default (http://www.macworld.com/article/3041175/security/replacing-fire-oss-encryption-isnt-enough-amazon-should-turn-it-on-by-default.html#tk.rss_all) |