Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk 143
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timothy
from the healthy-skepticism dept.
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.
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:0, Funny)
Ask Cowboy Neal he might know
Good ol' Taco (Score:5, Funny)
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? (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?
Re:Huh? (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.