Lol so much for Apple only taking cues from Android this time around...

[aevelasquez]

Last night, Apple head honcho Tim Cook announced that iOS 8 will encrypt all your personal data by default, making it harder for the NSA to root through your stuff. Now, in a totally coincidentally timed move, Google's announced that Android L will do the same.

According to the Washington Post, the latest and greatest version of Google's operating system — set to land in October — will turn on Android's encryption feature by default. The actual encryption protocols have been around since 2011, but are buried so deep within menus, sub-menus, and scary-looking warnings, that only the most tinfoil-hatted have actually enabled them.

http://gizmodo.com/google-follows-apple-in-encrypting-phone-data-by-defaul-1636617000

 

[powerstrokin]

http://gizmodo.com/google-follows-apple-in-encrypting-phone-data-by-defaul-1636617000

The only relevant part of that story is as follows:

"Just remember — any data 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"



All the encryption talk is just lip service.

 

[vgamedude]

The only relevant part of that story is as follows:

"Just remember — any data 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"



All the encryption talk is just lip service.

Theres plenty of things I don't send over to cloud servers, I barely use them at all in fact.

 

[roland.g]

The funny thing about "the cloud" is that clouds are often associated with rain, storms, and destructive things like hurricanes. Not sure that "the cloud" was the best associative term for storing and accessing data from the netherness of server farms.

 

[powerstrokin]

The funny thing about "the cloud" is that clouds are often associated with rain, storms, and destructive things like hurricanes. Not sure that "the cloud" was the best associative term for storing and accessing data from the netherness of server farms.

Kind of ironic they are called server farms when all the data is in fact farmed.

 

[roland.g]

Kind of ironic they are called server farms when all the data is in fact farmed.

I can't think of server farms and not think of the fields from The Matrix.