Amazon’s Secret Cloud and Amazon Key (that unlocks your front door)

the end of privacy

AMAZON WEB SERVICES ANNOUNCES SECRET CLOUD REGION FOR CIA

Amazon Web Services unveiled a cloud computing region for the CIA and other intelligence community agencies developed specifically to host secret classified data.

The AWS Secret Region will allow the 17 intelligence agencies to host, analyze and run applications on government data classified at the secret level through the company’s $600 million C2S contract, brokered several years ago with the CIA. AWS already provides a region for the intelligence community’s top secret data.[…]

The AWS Secret Region is essentially its own commercial data center air-gapped—or shut off—from the rest of the internet. CIA Chief Information Officer John Edwards views the new region as a key step in commercial cloud computing technology that has already changed the way the IC handles data and addresses cybersecurity. nextgov  Amazon Secret Cloud 

Might there be a conflict of interest or an opening for abuse?

Amazon Key USES A CONNECTED CAMERA AND LOCK TO ENABLE IN–HOME DELIVERY

Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door. You’ll need a smart lock and Amazon’s new Cloud Cam

AMAZON ECHO AND GOOGLE HOME

How easy is it to trick the voice recognition on these smart speakers and what does that mean for the security of your info? Fooling the voice recognition on Amazon Echo and Google Home:

WHAT WILL AMAZON THINK OF NEXT?

Well, it seems someone has thought of another way to steal into your life:

ISRAEL DELUGED WITH NEW TELEPHONE SCAM

 'Method very simple: Lure people into calling back extremely expensive provider, defraud those who return call to international provider.'

"Last Wednesday I got a call from Lithuania, which in itself was very strange. I answered and for a half a minute there was no response. Yesterday I understood that apparently it was a sting and I'm a bit confused now because I don't know whether to cancel my credit card; I'm now waiting for answers from both my credit company and the phone service provider," said one interviewee on the program.

"I have the 'Me' app, which identifies calls not on one's contact list, and it said the incoming call was a scam and not to answer or return the call, because if you call back, they take money from your account," said another near-victim. ArutzSheva