Celebrity Apprentice shows why you should have a lock code on your phone
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Don't ask me why I watch it, it's train wreck of a show, but I do.
Anyhow.. someone had their phone stolen/taken/lost whatever, but the owner of said phone most likely didn't have a lock code on the phone.
Later in the episode it was discovered that someone tweeted as the person who lost their phone something that was very embarrassing.
I can only imagine that had they locked their phone with a short timeout period this would not have been an issue.
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I hate having to put in a code to unlock my phone. The fingerprint scanner is great though - works well, fast, easy to use.
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@Nic said:
I hate having to put in a code to unlock my phone. The fingerprint scanner is great though - works well, fast, easy to use.
Agreed, the finger print scanner changes everything.
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I'm a huge personal privacy advocate.
FYI, you can be compelled to scan your finger to unlock your phone by police, but you can not be compelled to provide the unlock code.
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@Dashrender said:
I'm a huge personal privacy advocate.
FYI, you can be compelled to scan your finger to unlock your phone by police, but you can not be compelled to provide the unlock code.
Not in Europe. That's just an American problem. If privacy is a concern, you're in the wrong country.
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@Dashrender said:
I'm a huge personal privacy advocate.
FYI, you can be compelled to scan your finger to unlock your phone by police, but you can not be compelled to provide the unlock code.
That's a good point - if I were stopped by the police I'd reboot the phone to force usage of the keycode.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I'm a huge personal privacy advocate.
FYI, you can be compelled to scan your finger to unlock your phone by police, but you can not be compelled to provide the unlock code.
Not in Europe. That's just an American problem. If privacy is a concern, you're in the wrong country.
It's not just an American problem... It's quickly becoming a First World Country problem.
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@Nic said:
That's a good point - if I were stopped by the police I'd reboot the phone to force usage of the keycode.
Good point, all you have to do is turn it off and it is locked with the numbers required.
I wish that there was a "use this finger" option to make it lock rather than unlock just like inputting the wrong number. That way you use your thumb to unlock and your middle finger to.... give the cops the middle finger, so to speak.
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@Dashrender said:
It's not just an American problem... It's quickly becoming a First World Country problem.
What other country, other than the UK which is right in line with the US, does anything like this?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
It's not just an American problem... It's quickly becoming a First World Country problem.
What other country, other than the UK which is right in line with the US, does anything like this?
The UK was specifically who I was thinking of. But there was a recent article where someone was stopped in France and required to unencrypt his drive before he could fly.
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@Dashrender said:
The UK was specifically who I was thinking of. But there was a recent article where someone was stopped in France and required to unencrypt his drive before he could fly.
"Before he can fly" is a bit different. The UK and the US are the two that don't protect privacy. The UK is not like the rest of Europe at all. The UK takes a lot of heat on that side of the pond for their American-like policies.
