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Encryption Wins By Default

By Alexander Simo
CSIT 101 M.W.F.


1. Ever since the scandal generated by Edward Snowden last year, privacy has
been a major issue in the United States. However, the problem did not really
start to affect the image of major commercial companies until recently, when
private celebrity photos were leaked a few weeks ago. Since then the
approach taken by technological giants like Apple and Google has been much
more aggressive. To counteract the wave of backlash over the protection of
sensitive consumer information they have established an encryption setting
on upcoming phones that will be applied by default on files stored on the
mobile devices such as pictures, text messages, and voice recordings that will
not be seen by the company itself or law enforcement agencies even with the
possession of a warrant. However this protection only applies to content in
the phone itself, material in the Apple servers is subject to be turned over to
authorities.



2. I personally enjoy the experience provided by Google over that of Bing,
mainly because I am more familiar with the search engine and feel more in
control. However, I think that both present a very similar format with vey
similar results.

3. The Google and Apple Encrypt by Default article ran very parallel to the
article I used for the summary. Joe Miller, a technology reporter who
frequently writes for BBC, wrote it on The nineteenth of September. The
nature of the article is mainly informative and is backed by information
provided by the companies in discussion.

I thought that both articles were constructive and effective in conveying their
desired messages. However, there were some clear distinctions between the
articles from the Internet and those from the databases. The articles from the
Internet were incredibly easier to find, read, and sort by dates and specific
themes. Also, the articles from the internet felt a lot more casual and
condensed, but its credibility gets lost a little with the display of
advertisements in the website. The information from the databases felt,
overall, more concrete and professional.

4. All citations in this paper were done using MLA formatting.


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Pagliery, Jose. Apple Says IOS 8 Will shield Your Data from Police.
CNNmoney. Cable News Network, 18 Sept. 2014. Web. 20 Sept. 2014

Google.com- Miller, Joe. Google and Apple Encrypt by Default. BBC News.
BBC News, 19 Sept. 2014. Web. 20 Sept. 2014.

Bing.com- Musil, Steven. Google to Encrypt Data on New Version of Android
by Default CNET. CNET. CNET, 18 Sept. 2014. Web. 20 Sept. 2014.

Proquest- Stevenson, Dave. Encrypt Your Phone, Tablet, and Pc.
Media.proquest.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org. Pc Pro., Aug. 2014. Web. 20 Sept.
2014.

Proquest- Talbot, David. Ultraprivate Smartphones. (cover story).
Technology Review 117.3 (2014): 34-37. Business Source Premier. Web. 20
Sept. 2014.

Keywords: Phone Data Encryptions

Database: Proquest. I used this database because it was the one I was the
most familiar with, and therefore the most comfortable for me.