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>Phone passwords are for protecting things from your family. I think what you actually mean is anyone who has physical access to your phone. If you lose your p
by code_duck 7y ago
>Phone passwords are for protecting things from your family.
I think what you actually mean is anyone who has physical access to your phone. If you lose your phone or it is taken by authorities, then you are at risk of having strangers access your data.
- roenxi 7y agoStrangers already have access to all my data; I use Gmail [0] for most of my important personal emailing, metadata like website browsing habits is already snoop-able. iMessages might be secure, but there isn't anything substantial there that can't be dug up elsewhere. If this guy was relying on any password to protect his phone from physical access then he is in for a nasty shock - whatever his password was, his adversaries would know it after this video. That fact that it was 111111 doesn't actually change anything. He's in the US government. If he is up to something and he has enemies; it will get leaked. If he doesn't have enemies the lack of security isn't so terrible. His work is supposed to all be in the public eye anyway. [0] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/09/06/ungagged-google-warns-users-about-fbi-accessing-their-accounts/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/09/06/ungagged-google-...
- code_duck 7y agoI don't think all of that rationalization constitutes legitimate reasons to not just have a decent password. Generally a random people do not have access to your Gmail account. The fact that the password is so simple makes it much easier to discern the from the video. Just because his work is in the public eye for the government does not mean everything he does on the phone is supposed to be open to the public.