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Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk

Posted by timothy on from the healthy-skepticism dept.

m.ducharme writes "Slashdot's recently departed editor and Fearless Leader muses about the security implications of Amazon's Silk, which uses Amazon's massive cloud computing services to provide 'pre-caching' for the new Fire devices." Another potential downside to bear in mind (depending on exactly how much Silk relies on the AWS infrastructure) is that it provides a single point of failure, and sometimes cloud services go down.

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  1. Huh? by wsxyz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's Rob Malda?

    1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Ask Cowboy Neal he might know

    2. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I couldn't tell if the gp was being sincere or just trolling.

      Isn't that the goal of every slashdot commenter?

    3. Re:Huh? by bonch · · Score: 5, Funny

      The guy who infamously responded to the announcement of the original iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." So I'm sure we're all interested in his opinion about Silk.

  2. Good ol' Taco by multisync · · Score: 4, Funny

    At $199, the Amazon Fire stands to be shift the whole tablet market into a new (cheaper) place.

    Carrying on the proud Slashdot tradition of not giving a whit about copy editing by mangling the very first sentence. We're gonna miss ya, Rob.

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