Thread: [SECURE] Encrypted phone storage & Permitions of Android apps
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2015-06-30 , 17:51
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Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
But all the data is still there, unencrypted. And I would not want to place my bets that there is no mechanism for going around the lock (UART, JTAG, etc.). You might also have sensitive data on the uSD card.
Yes. With JTAG/boundary scan of course you can read the data, but how many people know how to do it and have the equipment?
(Well I have but I am not out there to steal your data, am I? )
Same goes for getting into the boot loader via UART, you need to open the device and find the pins to do that...


Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
The only way to be sure no one can get to your (or to any third party data you might have) is to use full disk encryption. Then the stolen/lost device is basically just holding a lot of random data.
Jolla has announced that cryptofs is on the roadmaps, and for that reason I have not tried to do it yet myself.
I implemented encfs on N9 but because the FUSE version on it was fairly old it had some bugs that caused spurious stability problems on high FS load.
 

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