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Wait a minute, didn't we meet at Punspace a few months ago? Hope all is well and glad you're okay.

Thanks for writing this post! I finally took a moment to enable FileVault :)

Best of luck on your travels!

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Same here. I didn't know OS X had disk encryption. And I went ahead and enabled encryption on my Nexus 4 as well.

Android's encryption is pretty useless, as it forces you to use the same key for the encryption and for the screen lock. So either you have a secure encryption key and a way too complicated screen lock key, or you have a reasonable screen lock key, and a totally insecure encryption key (that can be brute-forced in less than a second).

Why would they implement the feature that way? Why not have a boot passphrase? Wouldn't you need some custom hardware to extract the keys out of RAM? And Google is in the right position to mandate some extra security hardware, if needed to provide a secure design.

Not true anymore. Device encryption can differ from lock screen nowadays. But speaking of lock screen, people have built robot to brute force it, so shutting down after a few failures is definitely a good idea.

It appears still to be the case on my Nexus 5. Or are there any hidden options to fix this problem?

Sorry need an app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.crypt...

Discussion about the issue : https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=29468

My Macs all have encryption enabled, but I didn't know about Androids encryption. I'll be doing that as soon as my phone is charged!

Hi Jonas, we did! Thanks for your wishes, you still in Chiang Mai?

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