{"id":13707,"date":"2016-02-29T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13707"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:04:06","slug":"most-android-phones-are-not-encrypted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/most-android-phones-are-not-encrypted\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Android Phones Are Not Encrypted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/25\/technology\/android-apple-police-encryption\/index.html\">Jose Pagliery<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2016\/02\/26\/android-encryption\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/25\/technology\/android-apple-police-encryption\/index.html\"><p>Although 97% of Android phones have encryption as an option, less than 35% of them actually got prompted to turn it on when they first activated the phone. Even then, not everybody chooses that extra layer of security.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesman said that encryption is now required for all &ldquo;high-performing devices&rdquo; &mdash; like the Galaxy S7 &mdash; running the latest version of Android, Marshmallow. But only 1.2% of Android phones even have that version, according to Google.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, most Apple products are uniformly secure: 94% of iPhones run iOS 8 or 9, which encrypt all data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/fbi-asks-apple-for-secure-golden-key\/\">FBI Asks Apple for Secure Golden Key<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/what-is-the-secure-enclave\/\">What Is the Secure Enclave?<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Pagliery (via John Gruber): Although 97% of Android phones have encryption as an option, less than 35% of them actually got prompted to turn it on when they first activated the phone. Even then, not everybody chooses that extra layer of security. A Google spokesman said that encryption is now required for all &ldquo;high-performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,31,904,1137,355,48],"class_list":["post-13707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-ios-9","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13708,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions\/13708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}