Amazon’s latest Fire TV will be the first device to run Nougat-based Fire OS 6

Amazon's Fire OS 6 is (almost) here, with minimal buzz and fuss, debuting on the Fire TV Gen 3 with Android Nougat-powered functionality.

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When outrage pays off: Amazon will soon bring back Fire OS encryption

While owners of low-cost Fire tablets aren’t routinely characterized as extremely tech-savvy, and Amazon’s argument for ditching full disk encryption probably held up, the timing of the security-shrinking move wasn’t the wisest.Even if no one actually uses the feature, it feels weird to just give it up voluntarily, without so much as a heads up, when other companies’ execs are literally risking their freedom to protect it on every single iDevice ...

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Amazon kills off device encryption for Fire OS tablets

Encryption has a certain forward momentum to it: methods for protecting files and devices tend to keep getting better and better over time, not worse. Just look at how tying encryption to things like fingerprint security has made it easier to use (and trickier to crack) or how Android full-disk encryption started out as an optional feature, only to emerge as standard on Marshmallow-powered hardware. ...

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