Don’t use biometrics.
Period.
Full stop.
Biometrics are fine, just use lockdown of you get pulled over or are going throgh TSA.
You can still activate the camera/camcoder by double tapping power on a Pixel even in lockdown.
I love the confidence that a US cop or CBP agent are going to allow you to lock your phone while they’re asking you to hand it to them.
Biometrics is not security. Biometrics is ease of access. It’s literally designed to make your phone easier to access for you and by extension for a low skilled strong arm attacker or jack booted neo-fascist police state cop or border agent, a high skilled hacker, or a nation state actor. If your intention is to make your device easy to access, congratulations, biometrics is the right choice.
I love the confidence that a US cop or CBP agent are going to allow you to lock your phone while they’re asking you to hand it to them.
They’re not ninjas dropping out of trees at random moments demanding your phone.
What is the scenario that you’re picturing here where the person with the phone had literally no warning and no time to activate the lockdown? Turning your phone off takes like 5 seconds.
Is it technically less secure? Yes.
Is there any reason for the vast majority of people to assume they will ever be in an arrest situation where they won’t have adequate time to turn off their phone? No.
I’m all for being paranoid and cautious but this idea that convenience must always bow to absolute security is an absolute pox on the tech industry. There is such a thing a reasonable risk. You’re engaging in that yourself for even owning a mobile device that some jack booted neofacist could pluck out of your hands.
low skilled strong arm attacker or jack booted neo-fascist police state cop or border agent,
Bless your heart. Those bad people will just beat the password out of you without sweating.
It’s not that hard. See the lights on behind you, pull over and lock your phone.
ACAB
I cannot hear the word bipedal without thinking of Metal Gear lol. Idk why, it’s not like they’re the only giant bipedal robots in fiction
america is a joke. the 4th amendment is basically worthless. it’s time to rise up
Kiss your 4th amendment rights good buy. Can’t wait for “we are locking you up until you confess”
Can’t wait for “we are locking you up until you confess”
We already have that, it’s called not being rich and white.
People get strong-armed into confessing all the time. I personally know some one who confessed to arson they didn’t commit, forced to pay restitution, and serve time in a juvenile facility on the weekends.
Why would they confess to something they didn’t do? I asked the same thing from a mutual friend. It turns out they were feeling a lot of pressure because one parent had died and the other one would be left alone if he they were convicted and sent to jail. The plea deal made it plausible to love a semi-normal life.
This person isn’t alone. I’ve met someone else who pled to (as far as I know fictitious) child abuse claims from an ex-spouse to stay out of prison.
It happens all the time.
Some people simply will not believe that it’s possible to extract a false confession out of someone. Part of the reason I’m vehemently against the death penalty. How many people have been killed by the state for a crime they didn’t commit for this exact reason? If it’s higher than zero, then it’s best we get rid of the practice altogether.
Fuck America
