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Another illustration that your face and/or your fingerprints are not passwords. You should disable all that and set a PIN of at least 6 digits.
by ams6110 8y ago
Another illustration that your face and/or your fingerprints are not passwords. You should disable all that and set a PIN of at least 6 digits.
- okket 8y agoIf you are famous or for other reasons often in the center of attention, this may not work well too. See a recent event with a popular musician.
- smartbit 8y agoAt least a password with alfa numercial characters according to https://www.tomsguide.com/us/ios11-iphone-lockscreen-woes,news-26211.html https://www.tomsguide.com/us/ios11-iphone-lockscreen-woes,ne...
- Aloisius 8y agoOr just flip on the wipe if 10 wrong passcodes are entered feature. I'm a little surprised that was mentioned in the article.
- jplayer01 8y agoAs a largely security-conscious person, I'd love to, but there's a non-zero chance I'll lose all my data since my last backup by being triggered accidentally in my pants pocket.
- jstarfish 8y agoOne of my kids picked up my phone and thought the pattern unlock was a drawing game. Guess how it ended :)
- lox 8y agoOn iOS that would be a three hour process, you’d need to have a very patient and persistent kid!
- V99 8y agoIt is not really possible to accidentally trigger this in iOS. After the first few tries there is a longer and longer delay before you can try again, so it takes wrong tries over many hours.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoOn the other hand, since people don’t want to bother entering a long password every time they pick up their phone, they’ll be more likely to disable it entirely. Security is a continuum.
- okket 8y agoAlso, even if you are not famous or in the spotlight too often: I can think of many occasions in the public where I rather look at my phone to unlock it, then enter a complex number/password.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoBeing honest, for many people, they're not going to be in many situations where they need to worry about this. And when they are, they have some advance time, like they've decided to go protest this weekend. They could have face unlock on most of the time, but switch to a password for those times.
- dan-robertson 8y ago> your face and/or your fingerprints are not passwords How absolute do you think this is? In the U.K. this would be an illustration that your face and/or fingerprints are passwords as the police can compel you to give any of them (or go to jail), including passwords that you don’t know.
- bhhaskin 8y agoIt's pretty absolute. A password should be secret. Your face/fingerprints are not secret. It is right there for anyone to see.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoThey are more of a second factor ("something you have") rather than a first factor ("something you know"). That being said, for the vast majority of people, the only attack they're worried about preventing is their phone being stolen then subsequently used to access their financial accounts, mail, or social media. This attack is handled well by FaceID, since if criminals are in possession of your phone and not your person, it's unlikely they'll succeed in unlocking your phone. On the other hand, if they are in possession of your person as well, then they have straightforward approaches to compel you that no amount of phone technology would protect you from.
- okket 8y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/