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I always thought that Android's 3x3 dot pattern draw password thing was superior against these type of over the shoulder attack, as long as you turn off the tracing effect. Without tracing and if you do it quickly, it just looks like you’re dragging your thumb randomly all over the phone.
These are the people who are grilling Zuck? Our communications, privacy, and security, are in good hands! Ugh.
I don't lock my phone at all. Never have. However, with the new iPhones that don't have a home button, I believe that Apple is forcing you to either use face unlock or a passcode. There is no choice to just leave it unlocked. So, as soon as my iPhone 6s stops working, I will have to choose to: 1) Give in and use my face to unlock. 2) Use a dumb passcode like 000000. 3) Upgrade to the newest iPhone that still has a ho…
When I was a kid my house was "broken into" but because the door was unlocked the police couldn't qualify it as breaking and entering. It was merely trespassing and my neighbor who did it got off. I was 12, these details may be a bit fuzzy. I chased the guy off so nothing was taken, he just walked in, saw me running to the door and ran back out. Supposedly he was just drunk and wandered into the wrong house anyway. I…
That's what made him fine, not the fact that you didn't lock.
That's a thing that quite misunderstood, but for a crime to be committed, you need criminal intent. If you just made a mistake and weren't aware it wasn't your house, it's not a crime to enter it.
That is a iPhone X like device, which only has Face ID or a PIN. A PIN is more secure than a fingerprint and Face ID. But at least use a combination of either one with a PIN to make it more secure. Since the device was already on and it directly showed the PIN screen, Face ID is disabled and instead he chooses to only use a very very weak PIN. Oh dear.
Still safer than using an off-brand or Smasung fingerprint sensor.
are they so easy to pwn ?
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Is there a reason why the numbers aren't scrambled? This way you at least wouldn't be able to tell the password unless you saw the actual numbers.
I can't imagine a more annoying feature. My bank already does this where I cannot use the keyboard to type in digits, I have to use their own on-screen keyboard that's scrambled between every digit(!!!) and I can't imagine anything like that anywhere near my phone. Either pin-based protection is good enough for you, or if you need more security then switch to full a-Z password.
Of course, i know this because this is old stuff - at least around here. Both protections and banking malware advanced significantly since .. oh, say 2010.
But since banking malware is typically focused on countries, it might be different (less obsolete) if you're not in NW Europe.
And yesterday over a dozen members of Congress barged into one of the Congressional versions of this site without authorization and while recording video, audio, and taking photos on their personal smartphones. Here is a Twitter thread about why that is such a problem: https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1187032800572125191
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I always thought that Android's 3x3 dot pattern draw password thing was superior against these type of over the shoulder attack, as long as you turn off the tracing effect. Without tracing and if you do it quickly, it just looks like you’re dragging your thumb randomly all over the phone.
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I think your point may be that he doesn't have anything private on the phone to worry about or anything that needs to be kept secure? I think the argument hidden in the headline here is that since this is a device owned by a congressman, and allowed inside this particular meeting, it has information on it that may be confidential, and therefore needs a much stronger password. My phone has access to my email, phone nu…
Nobody in my contacts has given me non-public contact info such as secret phone numbers, email addresses or other such info. I don't manage other peoples accounts from my phone. My passwords are stored in an encrypted file, accessible only by entering my pin. My email app has a pin lock. I don't use the browser to login to any important sites like banking sites. If you get my phone, the most you can do is order somet…
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I think your point may be that he doesn't have anything private on the phone to worry about or anything that needs to be kept secure? I think the argument hidden in the headline here is that since this is a device owned by a congressman, and allowed inside this particular meeting, it has information on it that may be confidential, and therefore needs a much stronger password. My phone has access to my email, phone nu…
Nobody in my contacts has given me non-public contact info such as secret phone numbers, email addresses or other such info. I don't manage other peoples accounts from my phone. My passwords are stored in an encrypted file, accessible only by entering my pin. My email app has a pin lock. I don't use the browser to login to any important sites like banking sites. If you get my phone, the most you can do is order somet…
Considering that both your password and email are protected by pins, why not have a pin on the device too?