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Remotely wiping mobile phones by cancelling decryption keysRemotely wiping mobile phones by cancelling decryption keysPosted Sep 15, 2010 21:19 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: Remotely wiping mobile phones by drag Parent article: Remotely wiping mobile phones
> One thing that your completely missing, however, is that people leave their phones on most of the time. Encrypted drives only work effectively if your system is turned off at the time it was stolen.
Alternate perspective is that encryption and never-turned-off make a good combination as then if your phone is stolen/lost all you need to do is remote-shut-down. If you still have the phone, this is just an inconvenience. If someone else has it, they lose any access to your data.
All the value of remote-wipe and almost none of the cost.
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Remotely wiping mobile phones by cancelling decryption keys Posted Sep 15, 2010 22:43 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
That makes a lot of sense there.
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