Last nighttime , Apple psyche honcho Tim Cook announced thatiOS 8 will inscribe all your personal data by default , making it hard for the NSA to rout through your stuff . Now , in a altogether coincidentally time move , Google ’s announce thatAndroid Lwill do the same .
harmonise to the Washington Post , the latest and great reading of Google ’s operating system — set to land in October — will move around on Android ’s encryption lineament by default option . The real encryption protocol have been around since 2011 , but are buried so deep within menus , sub - menus , and scarey - looking warnings , that only the most tinfoil - hat have in reality enabled them .
That ’s set to change , with a party representative recite the Post :
“ As part of our next Android release , encoding will be enable by default out of the boxful , so you wo n’t even have to remember about turning it on . ”
The main consequence is that thieves ( and the government ) wo n’t be capable to access datum on your gimmick — even with Google ’s co - operation , since the Goog wo n’t have the key needed to unlock your telephone set .
All this marks a clear rebound from the wave of Snowden leak : tech firm , ineffective to check themselves from lawfully having to declare oneself data up to the government , are choosing instead to make that information inaccessible to anyone but the end user . Just remember — any data point that ’s been transmitted , or stored on a cloud server ( which in this day and age is almost all of it ) will have quite probably been intercepted by the NSA anyhow . [ Washington Post ]
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