• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Because they would have to possess technology that doesn't exist in order to circumvent actual encryption without a key.

    If I adequately encrypt my own data, and keep the keys a secret, I could hand my hard drive off to Microsoft and they could spend billions running all their AI clusters trying to crack it, and it would be a futile endeavor.

    If the government had the technology to bypass encryption or quickly and inexpensively crack it, they'd use it for a whole lot more than unlocking smartphones. They could basically control the flow of Bitcoin on a whim with such tech.

    • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      I am aware that there are secure encryptions, but android isn't hardware encrypted isn't it? Haven't used google android for a while, but no encryption was one of the reasons I moved away from it.

      No idea about apple, but longer startup times for storage encryption doesn't seem like a very apple thing to do

      Also phones are so seldom turned off, and if the system is running storage encryption becomes less of a concern as the key is somewhere in the ram