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Amazon Drops Support for Full-Disk Encryption in Fire OS 5 (etherplex.org)
7 points by rpdillon on Feb 22, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Does Amazon have an incentive to offer FDE, or is it just a support burden for them?

I ask, without much cynicism. How many of their customers will care? Will this lead to a PR problem for them? My guesses are few, and probably not.

Meanwhile, if someone forgets their password and can’t get their stuff, that could generate a lot of annoyance.

EDIT: To be clear: I value FDE personally, and use it wherever I can.


I'm sure it is a support burden, but perhaps no more than it is for Apple or Google in iOS and Android.




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