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When I was in college, someone did this with my phone. Luckily, they gave it back a minute later - perhaps because I made a ruckus, and perhaps because they fel
by xvector 5y ago
When I was in college, someone did this with my phone. Luckily, they gave it back a minute later - perhaps because I made a ruckus, and perhaps because they felt bad about robbing a student, who knows.
Still, it made me pretty uncomfortable using devices in public after that. For all the effort we put into cybersecurity, our measures are trivially defeated by a common thug. Even YubiKeys securing all your accounts wouldn’t do much to protect you from this.
- alexhutcheson 5y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- dmix 5y agohow is that relevant here and not other comments here?