Samsung has created a new mode for a Galaxy smartphone that must prevent telephone repair technicians from accessing customer personal data during repairs.
Samsung announced a new improvement mode on the Korean press broadcast page, which was seen by Sammobile.
This is a potential privacy feature that is very useful for the time -when when customers give others physical access to their devices. It is inevitable when repairs are needed and acts of belief that people who repair your cellphone – which is also the main camera and the main storage device – only make improvements that are needed and no more.
Not surprisingly, the technician has abused this access. Apple last year completed the lawsuit over two iPhone repair technicians who worked at the official Apple repair partner who leaked women’s sensitive photos and videos on Facebook, after acquiring the file when they fixed their iPhone.
Samsung said that it would bring the first repair mode to the first Galaxy S21 series in software updates and then will expand it to “several other models in the future”.
The improvement mode functions by allowing users to “selectively reveal data” when the smartphone exists for improvement. Repair mode can be activated in the settings application below “Battery and Device Maintenance”. This device is then re -boot and limited to applications installed by default, while access to personal data is blocked. After the phone is returned, the user can exit the repair mode and then reboot the device through the biometric or pin-enter.
The description does not explain at the technical level of how data is protected by this mode, but Samsung does show that they have created Samsung Knox Vault, isolated areas for sensitive data protected by hardware -based security.
Samsung said Knox Vault offers “Information Protection Technology that blocks various attacks by storing personal information encrypted in its own storage room”.