This is the true story of how Chloe Grist, a resident of Wiltshire in the UK, a health trainer (and director of a bar in Trowbridge in Wiltshire - The Birdhouse) between July 2018 and June 2020 harnessed two Amazon Fire tablets bought for her children prior to a toxic divorce. To stalk and to surveil her children and her former husband who had divorced her for infidelity and breaches of trust. How she exploited them to gain access to Amazon Photos, and privileged access to information during the life of two Court Cases where she was respondent. And how that surveillance of her ex husband aligned to her stalking him in the years prior to their eventual relationship.

Chloe Grist having twice broken into his home in Swindon in 2008, once at 6am in the morning having driven nearly an hour from her home gaining unlawful illegal access witnessed in the process and a second time breaking into his home office. Her later stealing and sending intimate images to a third party and then in 2008 at the culmination of her stalking launching a stalking campaign rarely bettered.

In Summer 2008 Chloe Grist created a false account on LinkedIn to pose as a head hunter. Approaching her now former husband. For weeks she attempted to gain his confidence as that head hunter and then when he wasn't interested in the role, knowing he was single, approached him using the same false name (having caused a computer to create those false credentials) to befriend him on MSN where for months she chatted to him pretending to be "this person".

Add on between him serving divorce on her and her appearing in Court in December 2018 her making constant false allegations to defeat proceedings and then her committing fraud in October 2018 attempting to get Legal Aid, and then her being recorded stating that she had researched committing perjury, before committing fraud in June 2019 in Bath Law Courts.

So why did Amazon, when they were aware of such massive vulnerabilities affecting tens of millions of users never publish a single solitary release of information for users in households across the world ? Conversely why didn't they inform any of their partners in any of the educational institutions globally that they support by way of donation or have sold Fire tablets to. Knowing those massive privacy impacting holes that were simply exploited had been discovered and now thanks to a UK security engineer detailing them to Amazon - patched.

A breach of confidence in the world's biggest consumer technology provider and online cloud retailer ?

But more worryingly, fully aware that the engineer reporting the vulnerability, one of the worlds most widely known Open Source engineers, was the victim of long term domestic abuse using the devices, went quiet.

A victim of actual domestic violence perpetuated using two of their devices. And Amazon knew that the abuse potentially extended to millions of other households where the potential was there for those tablets with cached credentials to have allowed privileged access to accounts.

They tried to cover up the story. This is the podcast that shines a light on what happened and ends with a full and unabridged explanation from the Principal Engineer involved in the security dilemma that explained how an Amazon senior staffer was able in very clear audio broadcast here in episode 4 of Amazon PR and Legal instruting a cover up. Evidenced by the non reporting in errata and changelogs of the security holes.