Ask Slashdot: Managing Encrypted Android Devices In State and Local Gov't?

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:08AM from the better-to-city-council-corruption dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a systems administrator for a mid size state agency. We currently offer Blackberries to our staff, but we are migrating to Android devices in the near future. Since phones have sensative data (email, documents, etc.), what is a good choice for encrypting that data? Options abound, like OS-level encryption from Motorola and Samsung, 3rd party apps from GoTrusted and even a LUKS port for Android. Does anyone have experience managing encrypted Android devices? What are the important features I should be looking at? Many thanks in advance." (And, for that matter, are there good options for doing the same with iPhones? Other options to consider?)

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Use Apple. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-12 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Their phones don't offer any enterprise-level collaboration features whatsoever. No features, no security risk!
Re:Don't encrypt by aristotle-dude · 2012-07-12 08:06 · Score: 3, Funny

> he could be fracking parks and recreations
Gee thanks. It'll take a long time to get that mental image out of my head.
No doubt, they should not allow exploration for natural gas deposits inside of parks.

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Re:Don't encrypt by Man+Eating+Duck · 2012-07-12 10:57 · Score: 3, Funny

s/authentification/authentication/g. I'm ashamed, and shall go to bed after finishing my beer :)

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