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There are two your account and the hidden root account ;)
I think the concerns are the interactions between user accounts. I don't think anyone is too worried about the hidden root account having access to your user account data.
My Mac has a guest mode, but I never use it. Do you?
My Mac has a guest mode, but I never use it. Do you?
It would be nice if iOS would support multiple user accounts/profiles, especially for games - so when a user is "logged in" a game's saved progress would be tailored for that specific user.
Smartphones seem to have mostly sacrificed some of their security for convenience. Take Windows for example, sure you can setup multiple user accounts with different levels of privilege , access to website and apps etc but how many people outside of a corporate or academic setting actually use this? Whenever I borrow someones laptop they just use their own login, sometimes I find porn in their Internet history but at…
My girlfriend and I both have logins on each other's laptops, so that we can both have our apps set up the way we like them. With bookmarks and history syncing between them, this makes life much easier.
Most people don't seem to really understand the benefit of doing this though, I've seen couples argue because they both keep changing preferences on a shared computer when multiple logins would solve their problems.
I was going to write a tweak for iOS to do something like this, with behavior similar to that of the built in Camera shortcut from the lockscreen. 1. You are using an app 2. You activate 'Guest mode' using a button press, swipe, tap, etc. (configurable) 3. If the user hits the home button, it redirects to the lockscreen instead of the homescreen (much like the Camera application does in lock-mode) 4. Instead of the c…
can you provide a sandboxed environment? he can't have access to any of my persistent Safari data (autofill/bookmarks/history/cookies/dbs/etc.), and any he creates should be wiped, probably on return to the lockscreen. all other forms of app switching (e.g. open a pdf url, then "open in" iBooks/goodReader/whatever) will need to be blocked as well. will also have to block the app tray, the notification center, pop-up/banner notifications, Siri, and possibly the phone. (could experiment with blocking badges and alerts but not sounds, since that only reveals the fact that an email/text/etc. was received, not any specific information about it.) might conceivably need to block all background app network traffic, tho i'm not sure if that's snoopable from inside safari.
basically os x guest mode
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Unless the thief takes off with the victims phone as well. I was thinking of the best case scenario. So the robber takes the phone as well, and the person calls it in 15 minutes later when they get to a phone. When the average police response time is about ten minutes, the difference between a call being placed 30 seconds after the robbery and 15 minutes after is pretty much nil. Additionally there are sadly instance…
You do because for the criminal there is no way to know if you used a duress code or not.So if you cant really get into a better position in the eyes of the criminal by not using it,you might as well use it and get cops to know you are in trouble. Not to mention that cops will potentially have a live video feed of the crime scene as the crime is being committed!
Also a criminal might see somebody fumbling with the keypad slower than usual and assume they are entering a duress code.
I generally enter my PIN very quickly , because the movements of my fingers on the keypad is stored in muscle memory.
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What kind of computer do you have that doesn't have a guest mode? Windows, Mac/UNIX and Linux have all been multi-user either from the beginning or for decades.
Yeah, but then I have to have a "guest" log-in. My computers are always on, so people never feel bad about asking to use them, and I feel it's unnecessary and unsmooth to log out. Since I've already been perfectly demanding|whining about a feature I'd like to have, what I _really_ want is to just click a program that boots up a vm with the same OS, but only the browser ready to go with a fresh lack of cookies, histor…
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You do because for the criminal there is no way to know if you used a duress code or not.So if you cant really get into a better position in the eyes of the criminal by not using it,you might as well use it and get cops to know you are in trouble. Not to mention that cops will potentially have a live video feed of the crime scene as the crime is being committed!
If they're part of a gang with a mole in the police they'll know - and who are you to say they aren't?