Society & Culture
There are good people in the world. Ethical folk who are engineers and programmers, programme leads and operational staff. Often they are managed by those who play the angles. Who would rather the bad news never saw the light of day.
But when you're an SEC listed company, fined days prior by the US Department of Justice and the FTC for a smaller breach than the one you've just had walked in the door that now affects the legacy privacy of tens of millions of devices in the field then you have an absolute responsibility to communicate to your users.
In fact the DoJ ruling stated that Amazon was orded "notify users of its retention and deletion practices and controls;". Immediately two major vulnerabilities which impacted that ruling were on the desk of the Head of Security regarding retention of data and privacy and cached credentials allowing a device to become a trusted hardware token.
With the fourth major bug being the fact that software flaws in Cloudview and logging meant you were unable to deregister Kids Fire devices at all from the Web UI.
So what happens when someone blows the whistle when Amazon tried to cover all this up ???
Decent people do exist. Shame Amazon can't keep hold of them. Maybe they should send him a stock award and an apology.