So I guess you are fine with putting your photos, contacts, call history, mails and everything else in a headache/puzzle/brainteaser ?
No normal user can open it, right ? But if your phone is stolen by somebody who knows or really wants to, he will find how to enter into recovery mode (really not a hackers only skill).
Every thief knows how to enter into recovery mode to reset and resell the phone, and even if he doesn’t know TWRP he will see that he can access everything.
An unencrypted phone with a custom ROM is definitely not secure.
So I guess you are using this ?
No need to have a sex tape stored in your phone to have things you don’t want to share.
Not encrypted = open. A lot of people are connected to their mailbox for example, and you really don’t want somebody to access that so easily.
Exactly, and you are not helping him/her by telling ‘use your phone as a phone’ nor ‘use your banking app on an unencrypted phone’.
This topic is about “Security”, the banking app is just an example.
To conclude, it really sounds easier to take 10min to encrypt a phone. Why this feature would exist if there was no risk ?
In the case you walk on the street using your smartphone and somebody steal your phone while it’s unlocked, I guess you will be happy to have locked sensitive apps by a password.
But I personally don’t use this feature.
Are you really telling not to protect something because it hasn’t been compromised yet ?
Why are you locking your door with a key if nobody has entered in your home ?
Why have you enabled double authentification if nobody has stolen your password ?
Why do you put your documents in a safe if you have never been robbed ?
I think (I hope) you will agree that the above examples can’t be taken seriously.
(Of course they are rhetorical questions so no need to answer)
You are probably the only one who recommends not to encrypt something. I can’t see what I could say more if you still don’t understand so this is probably my last post about that (here).
I don’t do it And I never have had a burglar in my rooms. Same on my car
I think this is all ‘making panic’. I’m absolute no friend of encrypting the phone. If it’s falling down and the screen is broken (that happens more than the phone gets stolen), I’m (as a advanced user) able to transfer my data to my PC and to my next phone. If the phone is encrypted, I have no chance to do it. That’s only one reason for a none encrypted phone.
EDIT: If I don’t answer back, that is NOT an approval. I’m just out of the mail
What i don’t understand is how you use your own situation as a sort of standard. It’s not harvey OS, it’s /e/ OS. So that means (i hope) a lot of different users, and a lot of different people. So safety measures are necessary, and for now Anonyme’s list is a good starting point. Hopefully /e/ is default save to use in the feature.
Full agree ! And I’m one of the different users which doesn’t lock his doors, doesn’t use a screen lock on his phone and doesn’t encrypt his phone and doesn’t use the latest security patches
Everyone should decide for his own what’s the best for him.
Live and let live. Without panicking
Of course, you can use it as you like. But advertising other to do this also is wrong in my opinion. Like disabling the airbags out of your car because you never had any accident, and tell others to do so also. In the /e/ car the airbags are disabled by default, so nothing wrong with warning the drivers to turn it on. After that they can decide for themselves.
Why is it wrong? Anonyme and you are telling him to encrypt and i’m telling not to encrypt.
Where is the difference. Why is my hint wrong and yours right ?
He should know both sites and than he can decide.
Ok, foget it. You and Anynoumus are the good guys and I’m the bad one because I don’t understand the panic making. That’s OK, I can live with it. Wish you a good life in your secure environment (or castle or jail ??)
And pls doen’t leave your home, outside is a virus which can kill you
I hope everyone on this forum realizes that he or she is entitled to his or her own views and can express them.
While you can express your views also understand that you cannot beat the others to accept your ideas.
Lets keep the forum discussion on the topic.
why is it wrong to say that the chance that it is not necessary to encrypt your phone ? And that in certain cases the encryption prevents you from securing your data ??
I find it sad when you are accused of lying just because you disagree.
