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I and others I know have faced this problem often enough that it is a primary concern for me. Political dissidents are the group I'm concerned about. Police ar
by mbgerring 9y ago
I and others I know have faced this problem often enough that it is a primary concern for me.
Political dissidents are the group I'm concerned about. Police are very interested in extracting contact lists from activists' phones in order to build a model of their social networks and infiltrate/disrupt them. This is a pervasive problem.
Yes, the answer is to get people to turn off FaceID if they're at risk, but educating large groups of at-risk people is hard, and it would be better if this feature were not turned on by default.
- MBCook 9y agoApple’s studies/metrics showed that basically no one (5-10%?) used passwords or pins before TouchID. You already have to educate them to use a password, is it that hard to say ‘and don’t use biometrics either’?
- mbgerring 9y agoNo, now you have an additional problem, because they might ignore the advice to use a password now that they think their device is secure by default
- MBCook 9y agoWould they? The only data we have says that even though people should secure things they don’t. Is it really going to be that different for people who have a REALLY good reason? I kind of doubt it. And does it matter? If a government wants to repress they’ll do it. They’ll beat you or harass you or something like that. “Well we think you’re trying to overthrow us but FaceID is turned off on your phone. I guess we’ll give up today. You’re free to go, have a nice time. ”
- URSpider94 9y agoYou have to use a passcode to enable FaceID.
- valuearb 9y agoIf you don’t know a passcode is required for touchID/FaceID, you don’t know enough about the topic to comment.