Da de mere sikkerhedsbevidste nok ikke flokkedes til tablet-udgaven af Amazons butik, lyder det sandsynligt at kryptering, som ikke er på som standard, ikke blev aktiveret af mange brugere. Men selve den opmærksomhed, som det giver lige nu at droppe kryptering, ville nu have fået mig til at fraråde dem at strømline her, hvis jeg hypotetisk var involveret.

Hvad der gør timingen endog meget sær er hvad deres CTO Werner Vogels fornylig på MWC erklærede om et ret relateret emne (min fremhævning):

Encryption plays a very, very important role in that. To be honest, it is one of the few really strong tools we have so customers know that only they have access to their data and nobody else.

In our cloud division we put encryption into all of our services where customers can manage their own keys. I think that encrypting your data … of your customers is mandatory. It is not only mandatory from a business point or in the cloud, but also on premise. You should be encrypting your data. Without backdoors you can be sure that you are the only one who has access to your data.

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