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You say that in jest, but that is actually how this process works. Remember when touchID came out and many people mockingly thanked Apple for not having to ente

You say that in jest, but that is actually how this process works. Remember when touchID came out and many people mockingly thanked Apple for not having to enter 4-6 digits? Now how many people get pissed off when their wet thumb doesn’t read right and they have to enter their pin? People get used to new luxuries.

paganel 8y ago
I’m wondering if I’m not the only person who’s not locking his smart-phone. At the same time I’m also making sure to never leave it out of sight and I have no Internet banking. I also have my WiFi network at home open, have had it for more than 10 years now.
- village-idiot 8y ago
  That seems unnecessarily risky to me.
  - paganel 8y ago
    It makes me not put on my phone things that I consider sensitive, like any of my CC details (the Apple account is connected to a spare debit card which hasn’t had any funds on it for quite some time), no sexting, no nude photos etc. I consider that a positive (and that’s why I thought a guy like Bezos would have been smarter than he really was, you cannot trust any electronic security thing when there’s literally a picture of your genital parts involved). On the other hand I’ve encountered lots of security-obsessed people here in HN who have given their fingerprints or, even worse, their face details to Apple on the premises of making their life more secure. I find that incredibly stupid.
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- tinus_hn 8y ago
  That’s going to be fun when someone decides to use your connection to make a bomb thread, or worse, upload copyrighted content.
  - paganel 8y ago
    We don’t have that many bomb-threats in the country I live in and fortunately the big media companies haven’t yet got the local authorities by the balls when it comes to copyright infringement. Agreed, had I lived in a country like Germany I might have done differently.
- Ntrails 8y ago
  I never used to lock my phone, but with fingerprint unlock the effort went away and so left it on.
  - ido 8y ago
    At least apple’s implementation of it is so flawed it seems to require me to retry at least once >50% of the time. Their face recognition however is amazing and works even in shitty conditions (such as dim light).

paganel 8y ago

I’m wondering if I’m not the only person who’s not locking his smart-phone. At the same time I’m also making sure to never leave it out of sight and I have no Internet banking. I also have my WiFi network at home open, have had it for more than 10 years now.

village-idiot 8y ago
That seems unnecessarily risky to me.
- paganel 8y ago
  It makes me not put on my phone things that I consider sensitive, like any of my CC details (the Apple account is connected to a spare debit card which hasn’t had any funds on it for quite some time), no sexting, no nude photos etc. I consider that a positive (and that’s why I thought a guy like Bezos would have been smarter than he really was, you cannot trust any electronic security thing when there’s literally a picture of your genital parts involved). On the other hand I’ve encountered lots of security-obsessed people here in HN who have given their fingerprints or, even worse, their face details to Apple on the premises of making their life more secure. I find that incredibly stupid.
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tinus_hn 8y ago
That’s going to be fun when someone decides to use your connection to make a bomb thread, or worse, upload copyrighted content.
- paganel 8y ago
  We don’t have that many bomb-threats in the country I live in and fortunately the big media companies haven’t yet got the local authorities by the balls when it comes to copyright infringement. Agreed, had I lived in a country like Germany I might have done differently.
Ntrails 8y ago
I never used to lock my phone, but with fingerprint unlock the effort went away and so left it on.
- ido 8y ago
  At least apple’s implementation of it is so flawed it seems to require me to retry at least once >50% of the time. Their face recognition however is amazing and works even in shitty conditions (such as dim light).