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Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the give-the-people-what-the-government-wants dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Although Google announced in September 2014 that Android 5.0 Lollipop would require full-disk encryption by default in new cell phones, Ars Technica has found otherwise in recently-released 2nd-gen Moto E and Galaxy S6. It turns out, according to the latest version of the Android Compatibility Definition document (PDF), full-disk encryption is currently only "very strongly recommended" in anticipation of mandatory encryption requirements in the future. The moral of the story is: don't be lazy — check that your full-disk encryption is actually enabled.

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  1. Re:This looks like a canary by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yet, Apple hasn't backed down on their disk encryption.

    My guess isn't that the NSA is demanding it, it's that vendors are more likely to be fucking it up.

    Oblig XKCD. NSA has other ways to figure this out.

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    Non impediti ratione cogitationus.