Android: Take a look if you accidentally voided data encryption by using any accessibility services.

Discussion in 'mobile device security' started by __Nikopol, Jul 22, 2018.

  1. __Nikopol

    __Nikopol Registered Member

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    A few days ago I found that when I enable an accessibility service, that I get a warning about data encryption. I googled and found this concerning blog-post about it actually setting the encryption password to the default one. This only concerns you if you encrypted you phones storage.
    https://blog.g3rt.nl/android-lollipop-encryption-user-interface-flaw.html

    The message is something like this:
    Unfortunately I use Last Pass and this means it is from now on very cumbersome to insert passwords into websites and apps. :(
     
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