Amazon Ditches Encryption, Leaving Users Wide Open

[Marshall Honorof]

If you have a Kindle Fire device, Amazon has given you two stark and highly insecure choices: lose encryption, or stop updating.

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User's of Amazon's Fire HDX 8.9 will also be informed by Private Internet Access (pia.com) support, that upgrading Fire tablets (to Fire OS 5.1.1) disables the use of their popular paid VPN services.

Yet a visit to Amazon's Appstore shows v1.1.5 of PIA's unusable application available for download, just as if it was still compatible.

Pity.