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Guardian: Better privacy and security for Android

Guardian: Better privacy and security for Android

Posted May 24, 2011 16:08 UTC (Tue) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: Guardian: Better privacy and security for Android by robbe
Parent article: Guardian: Better privacy and security for Android

Huh, a cursory google suggests that you're right, and that's still true.

Though I guess this makes some sense -- if you have the phone turned on but locked in your pocket, then the disk itself needs to be accessible (because the OS is running), but you would like the actually sensitive data to be encrypted with a key that you can throw away when the phone locks.


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