In-display fingerprint sensors have become commonplace in virtually all Android smartphones, for better or for worse, and five years later…
Never use biometrics on devices, security/privacy risk
So is typing in your passphrase while out in public around cameras. Might as well just not use the phone.
Just familiarize yourself with your phone’s lockdown mode so it’s muscle memory.
If you don’t succeed in lockdown before seizure, or aren’t conscious, your biometrics can be used without your consent.
Taking reasonable steps to improve your security doesn’t mean all efforts are all or nothing
For my threat profile, state actors compelling biometrics from my EDC phone is pretty low on my list of concerns. That shit is intentionally sterile because I know they will just push me a compromised “security update” if they want in.
And in any case, I’d still rather be able to fight the collection in public, vs being compromised by anyone who paid the janitor $20 to plug a USB drive into my phone.
Jokes on them, my phones stupid fingerprint reader only works about 3% of the time. They’ll get frustrated and give up before finding anything, I know I usually do.
