Episode 1: Into The Fire

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Firestalked - The Amazon Fire Tablet Security CoverUp

Society & Culture


In 2022/23 I discovered major discrepancies in the data I had been sent by Amazon regarding two tablets bought for my children in 2017. This followed a contentious toxic divorce and my suspicion that the tablets had been used by my ex-wife to stalk, monitor, eavesdrop and to gain unlawful access to documents, photos, audio, contact information and location information during 2018 to 2020.


But I couldn't work out how as I'd changed passwords religiously. I had two factor authentication.


It surely wasn't possible that an attack vector could be the two tablets, the cheapest plastic technology we owned.


Imagine my horror when I discovered four major bugs in FireOS and in the design and architecture of Fire operations.