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		Oletros on Feb 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Message to Our Customers > That version of Android is only on a handful of devices, And? > Google is not expressly clear that they don't have your encryption keys on Lollipop and lower; They have explicitly said that if the device is encrypted they don't have the key. > They definitely have the keys to your encrypted data on their servers no matter what, which can include complete backups of your device Source for that?

astrange on Feb 18, 2016 [–]

If you can still access your backups after changing your password, you don't control the keys.

In other words, if you can ever actually use something, it's probably not secure.

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