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Yeah, if you can pick a secure password and the device is always on your person like a smartphone usually is, evil maid attacks are out as are most other blackb
by shittyadmin 8y ago
Yeah, if you can pick a secure password and the device is always on your person like a smartphone usually is, evil maid attacks are out as are most other blackbag techniques. The big problem is that entering a password like that is a real pain on mobile, especially on device unlock. You could potentially set a different password on boot vs on unlock - that's a tad trickier than the average user is likely to want to deal with, but entirely plausible for the paranoid power user.
- Forbo 8y agoThat's exactly how fingerprint locks work on the Pixel. First unlock after boot requires a password, after that fingerprint can be used. It requires password entry about once a day or so as well for additional security.
- snaky 8y agoFor false additional security. More than that, it makes the password effectively useless, considering how easy is to peep when user is entering it, especially when it happened at random so the probability the user happened to be at some public place at that time is high.