Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk

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.

Huh?

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Who's Rob Malda?

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ask Cowboy Neal he might know

Good ol' Taco

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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.

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Isn't that the goal of every slashdot commenter?

Re:Huh?

[bonch]

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.