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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. Re:Huh? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But this only follows the /. standard response to any new device. There is not enough space, it's underpowered, it's overpriced, it doesn't render 3D models, it can't control the space shuttle, it can't beat Kasparov in chess, it can't even construct Kelly LeBrock for us - therefore, /. neckbeards have no use for it. Lame. Fail. Insertmeme