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Meh. For me this is such a non-issue. While very privacy-conscious in general, since my very bad experience with an encrypted backup drive, a lost password/pass
by notlisted 11y ago
Meh. For me this is such a non-issue. While very privacy-conscious in general, since my very bad experience with an encrypted backup drive, a lost password/passphrase, and losing 2 years of data/photos as a result, I've cooled on full-device encryption.
Sure, it's preventable, and it was my own stupid fault, but I bet it happens to a lot of people and it caused them, and Amazon, more heartache than the added level of 'security' encryption would provide. "What do you mean, you can't retrieve my data? You made this thing! Can't you reset the password?"
- jethro_tell 11y agoThis isn't a bad point. It's also worth noting that as a whole android hasn't been the most secure, and fde only works while the phone is off or storage is unmounted which may be important for some but most average users don't really ever turn the devices off. So if you're running fde and you get a stage fright driveby, it's fornaught. Making a device more secure when it's off has marginal utility to most customers that aren't on hacker news. And those customers probably don't outweigh the support issues associated with FDE for everyone.