Maybe the phone is attached to a MDM that requires a PIN.
Congressman's phone password is 111111
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#22I 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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#23I'm not an iPhone user but I thought that Apple warned you about this kind of password. It was covered quite a bit when Kanye was caught with a 000000 password when meeting with Trump. https://www.cnet.com/news/kanye-west-meets-with-trump-reveal...
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#24I tell this story a lot. But I think in the time of smartphones and such it also represents the only real secure site I thought was truly secure from what I knew of it. This was before smartphones were common, but I think it was ahead of its time in that way. I worked for a company that occasionally would service some of our hardware onsite. One customer was a company that did a lot of work for the military and they…
If you knew the location of "the site" (because you drove to it) - what benefit was the blindfold for the site?
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#25I 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 home button (I think iPhone 8) or 4) Become and Android user.
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#26Looks like 777777 to me.
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#27I tell this story a lot. But I think in the time of smartphones and such it also represents the only real secure site I thought was truly secure from what I knew of it. This was before smartphones were common, but I think it was ahead of its time in that way. I worked for a company that occasionally would service some of our hardware onsite. One customer was a company that did a lot of work for the military and they…
Where was this? What was the "site?" What country? And what kind of work were they outsourcing to outside the military?
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#28I tell this story a lot. But I think in the time of smartphones and such it also represents the only real secure site I thought was truly secure from what I knew of it. This was before smartphones were common, but I think it was ahead of its time in that way. I worked for a company that occasionally would service some of our hardware onsite. One customer was a company that did a lot of work for the military and they…
If you knew the location of "the site" (because you drove to it) - what benefit was the blindfold for the site?
I am guessing to obscure which building was which since the blind fold didn't come off until you were inside the building.
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#29The problem isn't the password or the camera that captured it.
The problem is that the phone required a password in that scenario-- same user, phone never left his vicinity, probably not a long interval between uses. Being more selective about when to require a master password is a better protection model IMHO.
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#30I tell this story a lot. But I think in the time of smartphones and such it also represents the only real secure site I thought was truly secure from what I knew of it. This was before smartphones were common, but I think it was ahead of its time in that way. I worked for a company that occasionally would service some of our hardware onsite. One customer was a company that did a lot of work for the military and they…
If you knew the location of "the site" (because you drove to it) - what benefit was the blindfold for the site?
Everyone knows roughly where Area 51 is, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll let a contractor know where all the external security cameras are sited.