“Security concerns are giving some consumers another reason to hold off on the Kindle Fire, one of the holiday’s hottest gadgets,” Mark W. Smith reports for The Detroit Free Press.
“Concerns grew this week over the device’s security,” Smith reports. “In order to use the Fire, users must tie it to an Amazon.com account — with credit card on file — that is set up to purchase items with just one click. This means that anyone given access to the device can buy, with just a tap, e-books, apps, TV shows and music.”
“Even more concerning: If a user has recently logged into the Amazon.com shopping app, the next person who picks up the Fire can use that app to buy anything from the Web giant’s catalog, even if the device has briefly gone dormant between uses,” Smith reports. “Also concerning to some, the Fire’s homescreen includes a carousel of all of a user’s most-recently touched content. When a user opens a book, it will revert to the front of the carousel. When a user then browses to a website, a screen grab of that website heads to the front of the carousel. That carousel is not editable by the user, so there’s no way to hide any of your recent activity from other users.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop ” for the heads up.]
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