Amazon Backtracks on Fire OS 5 Encryption

On Friday, Amazon backtracked on its stance regarding encryption and Fire OS 5, stating in an email to the press that the company will re-enable the option for full disk encryption in an update this spring. The option for encryption was actually removed with the release of Fire OS 5 back in September 2015, but didn’t receive public attention until last week.

Although Amazon is returning encryption to its operating system, the …read more

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