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发帖数: 1034 | 1 By Jonathan Feist September 19, 2014
Although device encryption has been available as a security measure to
Android users for a while now, Google is stepping up user security in
Android L by turning on device encryption by default.
Niki Christoff is a spokeswoman for Google and has been quoted as saying “
As part of our next Android release, encryption will be enabled by default
out of the box, so you won’t even have to think about turning it on.”
There are many security benefits to encrypting your Android device,
including, but not limited to, preventing would be thieves from accessing
your data on device without your password, and even blocking law enforcement
from accessing data like your stored messages and photos. Google makes it
clear that they do not store any encryption keys off of device, so they
cannot help law enforcement access your phone, even if they wanted to.
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While the encryption process will be setup within the device activation
process, thus making it a default setting, users will have to keep in mind
that the security pin or password they put in place should remain private
and secure. Let’s face it, if you lose or forget this password, you will be
locked out too.
Another major benefit to device encryption, aside from being a theft
deterrent, is that your personal files will no longer be able to survive a
device factory reset. We recently reported that determined individuals were
able to recover many personal files from a collection of devices that had
been factory reset and were on their way for resale as used electronics. A
little bit scary, but will not be a factor for new Android L devices.
Android Device Manager
As a default offering, this is a great move by Google to go a step above and
beyond their Android Device Manager‘s remote locate and wipe functionality
to protect users and their data. We also suspect that this is a part of
Google’s overall strategy to comply with new California law requiring new
devices to ship with anti-theft measures baked in. It may be of note that
Apple has also just announced they will have similar measures in iOS 8.
Have you been using Android’s device encryption or other more drastic
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