Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech 249
angry tapir writes "While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon's launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off a bit of potentially radical software technology as well, the new browser for the Fire, called Silk. Silk is different from other browsers because it can be configured to let Amazon's cloud service do much of the work assembling complex Web pages. The result is that users may experience much faster load times for Web pages, compared to other mobile devices, according to the company."
They Both Win (Score:3, Insightful)
Amazon Silk + SSL = MITM? (Score:5, Insightful)
What about handling secure (https) connections?
We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com/ [siteaddress.com] ).
So essentially, they become the man-in-the-middle so they can better cache your HTTPS content? And their browser is programmed to show this is acceptable/secure... What kind of privacy implications does this introduce? Even if their privacy policy says they won't use the data maliciously, cloud computing isn't a bullet-proof system (i.e., leaks, hacking incidents, etc.). Call me paranoid, but if I read this right, this sounds like a frightening idea.
Re:Opera? (Score:4, Insightful)
Not sure if trolling or just stupid...
He was engaging in an obscure practice known as humor [wikipedia.org].
Re:This is just Opera Mini/Turbo (Score:5, Insightful)
Interrupt 21h won't care what's in al, so you don't need to clear it.
Well, whoever spawned the process in question might care, since AL is the return/error code after termination!
You kids these days code like everyone has megabytes of RAM just lying around.
I would have thought you old timers had learned your lessons about skimping on what you assumed to be unimportant bytes ;)