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Turn your phone off before crossing a border. Put the wrong finger on the sensor five times in quick succession when you are asked to hand over your phone and y
by pilif 12y ago
Turn your phone off before crossing a border. Put the wrong finger on the sensor five times in quick succession when you are asked to hand over your phone and you don't get a chance to turn it off.
In both cases, the phone will require a passphrase for unlocking (if you configure one as opposed to just a simple code, of course).
Having a really long passphrase and the ability to very quickly render the fingerprint reader useless is a huge improvement in security over previous touchid-less phones.
Having to both type a code and using my fingerprint (in that case, in addition to a very long passphrase, which would be difficult to explain to users how that works) would be very annoying, at least for me.
- ghshephard 12y agoPin, not a passphrase. Just switching to a 4 digit pin would be heaven for me (I have an iPhone 5) - I would have zero problem entering touchID + a 4 digit pin.
- r00fus 12y agoEven simply disabling "simple passcode" and using an equivalently simple alphanumeric passcode makes the task a lot more difficult for the brute-force cracker. In fact, if you look at one of the cracking tools that law enforcement is known to use [1], iOS8 looks to have made things more difficult: "iOS 8 Currently under version 4.0 Advanced logical extraction will extract less data compare to previous iOS versions." [1] http://releases.cellebrite.com/releases/ufed-release-notes-4-0.html http://releases.cellebrite.com/releases/ufed-release-notes-4...