patterns and pins can be watcher over shoulder though.
you cant copy a fingerprint last i checked.
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Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah just don’t use biometrics.
Odds of me getting arrested or stopped and interrogated and involuntary made to unlock my phone are near zero, but I still use a pattern to unlock. IMO pattern is most secure, because it cant easily be described verbally like a pincode, and it gets harder to do the more confused I am, so smacking me round the head or isolation and sleep deprivation would not improve my chances of accidentally describing the pattern. Note that I’m not an activist, criminal, reporter or political adversary, and I live in a very safe and democratic country so the likelihood of these things happening is very slim, but I still put a big emphasis on opsec when it comes to my technology.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I heard somewhere that authorities can’t ask you for a PIN but can ask you for a pattern because of the way the law is written.
I’d love for someone to confirm that though.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh they can ask, but in certain conditions, my memory gets really bad…
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A French scientist en route to a conference in Texas was detained upon his arrival at the airport, his phone unlocked and the poor bloke was sent hone without his phone and his computer because apparently he had written bad things about the current president on social media…
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I heard of many recent border stories, but this one really sounds like an oppressive regime.