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Even worse than the iPhone prints are the smears left from the gesture locks on Android. You can see the whole thing quite clearly. I've been able to unlock sev
by digitailor 15y ago
Even worse than the iPhone prints are the smears left from the gesture locks on Android. You can see the whole thing quite clearly. I've been able to unlock several people's phones just by tracing the smear left on their screen. There's no ordering problem either.
- Macha 15y agoOnly half my gesture lock is visible like that. I do change it from time to time which may have played a part in that though.
- minikomi 15y agoThe gesture system, for me at least, is also far easier to pick up visually by glancing .. it's much easier to obscure which numbers you are tapping.
- ahpeeyem 15y agoI found it easier to pick up visually as well, and thus more difficult to hide from anyone who may be trying to see it. On the other hand it's really hard to describe your gesture to someone if you're lending them your phone, unlike a PIN which is easy to relay verbally; you really need to demonstrate the gesture.
- andrewaylett 15y agoI map the points to numbers and give them that -- it winds up being exactly the same as telling people a PIN.
- v21 15y agoBut on the other hand, I can do it (I think) quicker than entering a PIN code, and without looking at my phone. Always a tradeoff...
- aristidb 15y agoFortunately you can use PINs with arbitrary length on Android, too.
- evilduck 15y agoPrior to 2.2 you couldn't, and there are a ton of Android devices out there that will never see that update.