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I don't trust FaceID (technically, I don' trust the cops with FaceID), so I'm entering my (6 digit) PIN every time I take my phone out of my pocket anyway. The
by bigiain 2y ago
I don't trust FaceID (technically, I don' trust the cops with FaceID), so I'm entering my (6 digit) PIN every time I take my phone out of my pocket anyway. The only thing that'd make me hesitate to set this down to single digit minutes would be the risk of missed calls/notifications while the phone reboots.
- astrange 2y agoIf you're outside the house that's less secure, because a security camera or a shoulder surfer can see your PIN.
- layman51 2y agoAgreed. I don’t understand how someone would be careful to not use biometrics and yet use a six digit passcode instead of an alphanumeric password.
- curious_ralts 2y agoGraphene has a feature exactly for this which shows a shuffled unlock screen
- saagarjha 2y agoThis sounds like an excellent way to make it even easier for people to watch you enter your PIN.
- cubesnooper 2y agoOnce you’ve had the PIN scramble turned on for a while, it becomes second nature. I enter my GrapheneOS scrambled PIN about as quickly as the unscrambled PIN on my non‐GrapheneOS work phone. But it’s more of a defense against figuring out my PIN from the finger marks on my screen. In environments where shoulder surfing is a concern, I prefer to use the multiple profiles feature: log out of my main profile (which is actually a secondary profile) to completely evict its keys from memory, and switch to a burner secondary profile containing no personal data, which unlocks with my fingerprint for convenience.
- saagarjha 2y agoI am curious what you do with a phone that has no personal data beyond, like, call people whose number you have memorized and maybe look something up
- chatmasta 2y agoSecond nature or not, I’m not sure how this protects you against the security camera watching you enter the passcode. I guess you’re hoping it can’t read the digit on each key?