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Forcing boot passwords to be the same as what unlocks the screen guarantees that they're so weak that they might as well not exist. Meanwhile, users who want re
by cxseven 10y ago
Forcing boot passwords to be the same as what unlocks the screen guarantees that they're so weak that they might as well not exist. Meanwhile, users who want real security are fucked.
The same kind of boneheaded removal of features in the name of simplicity is behind Android Pay requiring your phone to have a locked screen -- because that supposedly solves the problem that used to exist of users having to enter a PIN twice when they'd unlock the screen and then unlock Android Pay.