March 4, 2016 By Theo Valich
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Amazon released Fire OS 5, its fifth generation operating system based on Google Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’ to its latest devices. Users of older Kindle Fire tablets, such as the Kindle Fire HDX are not getting an upgrade, and that might be a good thing.
The discussion in U.S. raging between Apple and technological companies versus the FBI and governmental organizations – instead on focusing on the real problem, which is how a known extremist behaving couple could purchase deadly automatic weapons in California (which has an active ban on automatic weapons). It looks like Amazon decided to side with the FBI, and removed encryption options from Fire OS 5. Furthermore, upgrading your 4th and 5th generation Kindle tablets to Fire OS 5 will *erase* all the data from your device. In order to avoid this, and download everything again – you will have to take special steps in order to keep your files.
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Amazon Fire OS 5 Removes Encryption on Kindle Tablets
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+62I'm wondering if others will follow suit as Amazon?
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+54I would not be surprised at all Sherry if they did.@ wrote:
I'm wondering if others will follow suit as Amazon?
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+54by Tom Spring March 4, 2016
Amazon’s decision to remove encryption from its tablets running the latest Fire OS 5 release of its software has many privacy-minded tablet owners are crying foul. They are blasting Amazon for making their tablets less secure and no longer safe to store personal data from email credentials, credit card numbers and sensitive business information.
“Amazon rolled over, exposed all our bellies to be eviscerated by the bad actors if lost or stolen,” wrote an Amazon Fire tablet owner on an Amazon message board. Fire tablet owners shared similar sentiments on other social media channels on Friday.
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Amazon’s decision to remove encryption from its tablets running the latest Fire OS 5 release of its software has many privacy-minded tablet owners are crying foul. They are blasting Amazon for making their tablets less secure and no longer safe to store personal data from email credentials, credit card numbers and sensitive business information.
“Amazon rolled over, exposed all our bellies to be eviscerated by the bad actors if lost or stolen,” wrote an Amazon Fire tablet owner on an Amazon message board. Fire tablet owners shared similar sentiments on other social media channels on Friday.
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+62Yeh my second thought is Amazon will lose sales on this Kindle don't you think? I guess I'd be crying about it too.
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+54Fire OS 5 dropped the feature, but a new update will bring it back.
by Andrew Cunningham - Mar 5, 2016Amazon will restore optional full disk encryption to Fire OS 5 in a software update "coming this spring," according to a statement released by the company on Friday evening.
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+62I can't say I am not happy for this update for the Kindle now. I just don't think it's fair to take it away from the consumers because of the bad guys?
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+26People crack stuff easy because govt ordered backdoors.
Also terrorists use burner phones anyways like those cheap 30dollar tracfones. Not a 500 dollar iPhone on Verizon or att which are harder to evade from. Tracfone recycles numbers all the time..
Also terrorists use burner phones anyways like those cheap 30dollar tracfones. Not a 500 dollar iPhone on Verizon or att which are harder to evade from. Tracfone recycles numbers all the time..
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