@GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoAndroid phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few dayswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareUlrichlinkfedilinkEnglish23•edit-26 months agoIt’s more than that. After restart your phone goes into a more-secure Before First Unlock (BFU) state so it’s much harder to penetrate. Apple started doing this a few months ago and I guess Google is just catching up.
minus-square@IllNess@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoThank you for the info. I read up more on BFU and I didn’t realize that encryption was a requirement for Android 10 and higher. Very interesting. What I read: Dakota State University DigForCE Lab: BFU and AFU Lock States
minus-squareUlrichlinkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoYeah I learned about it from reading up on the Israeli hacking software called Pegasus. There were several devices that they could hack in AFU state but not in BFU state.
It’s more than that. After restart your phone goes into a more-secure Before First Unlock (BFU) state so it’s much harder to penetrate.
Apple started doing this a few months ago and I guess Google is just catching up.
Thank you for the info.
I read up more on BFU and I didn’t realize that encryption was a requirement for Android 10 and higher.
Very interesting.
What I read: Dakota State University DigForCE Lab: BFU and AFU Lock States
Yeah I learned about it from reading up on the Israeli hacking software called Pegasus. There were several devices that they could hack in AFU state but not in BFU state.