Apple beats Microsoft to the encryption party?

[rhapdog]

3. Is it paranoid to expect that degree of security on my phone? I don't care about the NSA but what about stolen phones and other attacks?

If your phone is lost or stolen, you can easily log in from any computer and do the "find my phone" thing from windowsphone.com. From there you can send a signal to your phone to have it completely wiped so that no one can recover any personal data.

So, worried about police getting the data off your phone? You can have it wiped, even if they have it in their possession, before they can get the search warrant. That is, if you can make bail.

Personally, I don't conduct any illegal activity, nor do I put anything on my phone or in the cloud that I would not want someone else to see. (Or on my computer for that matter.) Therefore, a police search warrant would never concern me. My concern is that someone could use my phone to get enough personal data on my to steal my identity. For that, I can quickly use the wipe service before anyone would be able to brute force the phone password.

To me, this goes one step better than iOS having mandatory encryption. I don't want my photos and personal documents encrypted. If I pull out my SD card and plug it into my computer, I want to be able to pull off my personal files and see them on my laptop, so that I an transfer them to a new phone without losing anything.

I generally don't back up to OneDrive because I already have 64GB on my SD card, and I do regular backups to both my laptop and a portable HDD, which I believe is more secure than using the cloud. Sure the cloud is convenient at times, and I use it when I want to share a file with someone, but not for everything. For everything else, I use a portable backup drive that I can easily plug into my laptop to keep everything stored.Keep the drive in a lock box the rest of the time. The backup drive can be easily encrypted using multiple layers of encryption using TrueCrypt, etc., so is way more secure than OneDrive or any other cloud service, since no one can hack it from the internet.

Anyone can have a measure of security on any device if they use a bit of common sense. For me, if you don't want naked pictures of you to show up everywhere, then don't allow those pictures to be taken. Problem solved.

 

[anon(5590893)]

"I have nothing to hide so everybody can see what's in my cloud or on my phone" - the usual simple answer when people ask for data protection. When you find out what criminals can do with your personal stuff it probably will be too late. Privacy should be first, even for the good guys like us.
The smartphone seems to become the device where all our data meets, financial, private and whatever. So I expect better security than MS delivers. I just want the same what iOS and Android users get - or I'll just leave WP, disapointed.

 

[MDMcAtee]

like i said its tougher and not worth the effort
would you pay $19 just for unreliable piracy when you can get the app reliably from the store for $1-2



^^not true at all
and im way off base
speak for yourself mate speak for yourself or dont say anything
im a developer on every platform and know a thing or two about security
my comment mentioned that naysayers will boo me and give an explaination which makes no sense
as for icloud- 100 celebs hacked at once,seems a bit insecure doesnt it
as for all app store being good at removing rogue apps-LOL play store has 90% malware/fake apps
apple and ms do a great job at keeping malware at bay
open source is easier to hack,just accept it even symbian got 2 viruses after going open source





^^exactly!! some people fail to see the bugs which allowed the hack in the first place
blame the consumer as the system goes!!just like apples statement which denied it at first

What ever you are smoking or drinking stop... Step away from it now. because you don't know anything about this. You spout off about the play store having 90 % malware fake apps just shows how ignorant you are along with the fact that you don't have a frigging clue to how those accounts got hacked or by what programs. It's just somemore anti ios BS.

Anyone can get hacked regardless of what os is running with what was used.... Stop spreading fud about this

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[Guytronic]

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