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Do you use encryption in your phones?
- Thread starter lvt
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brianparry
Newbie
No, simply because I don't see the need to. There's no confidential info on my phone except what in my banking apps and I figure they should be pretty secure anyway. I'm interested to see what people's reasons for going the extra mile are.
If the phone has 6.x Marshmallow or later, I believe the internal storage is encrypted by default. And if you do adaptive storage with the SD, that is securely encrypted as well and can't be read by anything but the original device.
BTW iPhones have been encrypted for a couple of years now, as have Macs.
To me it's not "extreme measures" it's just how some of these things come now.
BTW iPhones have been encrypted for a couple of years now, as have Macs.
To me it's not "extreme measures" it's just how some of these things come now.
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lvt
Android Expert
AFAIK the adoptive storage and encrypted SD card don't have the same level of security, or I'm wrong?If the phone has 6.x Marshmallow or later, I believe the internal storage is encrypted by default. And if you do adaptive storage with the SD, that is securely encrypted as well and can't be read by anything but the original device.
BTW iPhones have been encrypted for a couple of years now, as have Macs.
To me it's not "extreme measures" it's just how some of these things come now.
I believe an adoptive encrypted SD is just as secure. I know we've had several posts about it, where phones have taken a dump or been trashed or factory reset, and what's on the SD is just not readable by anything, and only thing can do is format it to make it usable again. AFAIK there's no secret backdoors in it, because open source.
"HELP! All my photos were on there!?" ....Sorry!
I'm pretty sure there's no performance hit from using encrypted storage, as it's done on the fly, transparently when reading and writing data.
BTW I bought a new MacBook in 2015, and I didn't even notice this for a couple of months.
Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)
I don't think Windows encrypts as default yet, but next version might.
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Davdi
Android Expert
I use encryption (Marshmallow) and on my Linux laptop & desktops. The Win10 Pro un my dual-boot desktop does use BitLocker, the Win10 home on my HP detachable does not.
I'm using encryption where it's enabled by default, and where there's a reason to (Portable devices mainly).
I'm using encryption where it's enabled by default, and where there's a reason to (Portable devices mainly).
