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Your fingerprints are probably all over the device they stole, though. It's like if you wrapped your laptop in a decorative cover of your password written ever
by SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
Your fingerprints are probably all over the device they stole, though.
It's like if you wrapped your laptop in a decorative cover of your password written everywhere.
Similarly, if facial recognition becomes the standard, thieves will just take a snap when they rob you.
- sqeaky 10y agoYou average pick-pocket is not going to lift fingerprints of a phone. He will drop the phone in a plastic bag and fence it to someone who can lift the prints or factory reset it without the prints.
- Tharkun 10y agoAnd this is better, somehow?
- wilg 10y agoDepends if it reduces theft.
- newscracker 10y agoI think post Activation Lock and similar features on smartphone platforms, thieves usually sell stolen devices to those who rip them apart to get to specific parts that they can resell. That will continue until the phone makers figure out how to disable the display, digitizer, battery and other parts that have value even in a "bricked" phone.
- wilg 10y agoCan you factory reset an iPhone without the passcode? I thought Activation Lock was supposed to prevent this?
- firloop 10y agoYou can wipe without a passcode, but if the user turned on Find My iPhone before the phone was wiped, the phone will be a brick until one logs into the associated iCloud account.
- falcolas 10y agoProbably worth more as parts to a more shady repair shop. Last I heard, a shiny new laptop's only worth a couple hundred when fenced.
- imron 10y ago> Your fingerprints are probably all over the device they stole, though Including very likely the fingerprint scanner itself.