{"id":221619,"date":"2026-03-09T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/android-17-beta-2-is-picking-up-a-security-trick-from-chrome-os\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:15:10","slug":"android-17-beta-2-is-picking-up-a-security-trick-from-chrome-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/android-17-beta-2-is-picking-up-a-security-trick-from-chrome-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 Beta 2 is picking up a security trick from Chrome OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-beta-2-chrome-os-3647559\/\">Android 17 Beta 2 is picking up a security trick from Chrome OS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-beta-2-chrome-os-3647559\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-beta-2-chrome-os-3647559\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 12:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android 17 Beta 2 starts implementing support for restricting how Thunderbolt or USB4 devices access system memory.<\/li>\n<li>Just like on Chrome OS, that access could be limited by default, and require users to specifically grant it.<\/li>\n<li>Android\u2019s Advanced Protection Mode may restrict your ability to override the limitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Android is already a lot more than just a mobile OS, and has found success in the home through Android TV. But the platform\u2019s expansion onto new device types is really only just getting started, and maybe the most exciting area for its expansion now is onto desktop and laptop computers. Aluminium OS teases a new Android-powered way for us to compute, and Pixel users everywhere are already trying out Android\u2019s Desktop Mode. We\u2019re picking up a new whiff of Android\u2019s increasing desktop-ification as we continue to dig through all the changes present in Android 17 Beta 2.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting the needs of desktop computer users requires supporting a lot more hardware than a phone alone might need to \u2014 and that includes connectivity options, as well. High-speed wired interfaces are still king, and in Android 17 Beta 2 we can see Google working on Android support for something Chromebooks already offer: The ability to limit how Thunderbolt or USB4 devices access system memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Ag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By default, Chrome OS restricts the ability of devices connected over Thunderbolt or USB4 from getting direct memory access. That kind of permission represents a lot of exposure from a security standpoint, so Google suggests you leave this off except with trusted devices and when there\u2019s a real performance penalty from not using it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, don\u2019t look now, but with Android 17 Beta 2, we\u2019re starting to see the same sort of access restriction being built into Android.<\/p>\n<p>Code<\/p>\n<p>Copy TextData access protection<br \/>\nAllow USB and Thunderbolt devices to access system memory directly for maximum hardware&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-beta-2-chrome-os-3647559\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 Beta 2 is picking up a security trick from Chrome OS https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-beta-2-chrome-os-3647559\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Advanced-Protection-in-Android-16-hero-image-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,57],"class_list":["post-221619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221621,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221619\/revisions\/221621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}