<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10250803" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10250803</a><p>I&#x27;ll repost a snippet from a post by merhdada that hints at the root of one of the problems with android security:<p>&quot;This can happen only because of a design flaw in the security architecture of Android (L). Unlike iOS and like traditional PCs, the disk encryption key is always in memory when the device is booted and nothing is really protected if you get a device in that state. It&#x27;s an all-or-nothing proposition.&quot;<p>Please read the entire thread, and check the links referenced in that thread, for information on how issues like these are mitigated.<p>That&#x27;s only one issue though. There are a few more.<p>But none of that even matters a lot of times ... you really won&#x27;t need to hack an android phone... because the data is also on corporate servers. So the FBI could get at it in any case most of the time.