On Android, "OS files are left unencrypted"

[ignoramous]

Affected page

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#security-protections

Description

- the operating system files are left unencrypted

Unsure what this (technically) means, but high chance that it is incorrect, regardless.

cc: @eylenburg

Sources

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/encryption/file-based

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[privacyguides-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-protonvpn/33980/348

[jordan-warne]

This is worded correctly. See here: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/encryption/file-based#storage-classes

Actually you are right I think this is not accurate per:

Directories in /data that can't be or don't need to be protected by FBE. On devices that use metadata encryption, these directories aren't truly unencrypted but rather are protected by the metadata encryption key which is equivalent to System DE.

[ignoramous]

This is worded correctly. See here: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/encryption/file-based#storage-classes

I envy the confidence with which pg will publish more "serious" security content: #3140