I really like the convenience of using fingerprint unlock for lockscreen and password manager. I do however don’t like the thought of being forced to unlock both physically.
I use Android with GrapheneOS.
I have set up lockdown, but it takes some time to hold the power button and then click lockdown.
Any creative solutions?
If you care about privacy, don’t use biometrics.
It is sad because it is less convenient, but that’s what’s up.
Yeah just don’t use biometrics.
Odds of me getting arrested or stopped and interrogated and involuntary made to unlock my phone are near zero, but I still use a pattern to unlock. IMO pattern is most secure, because it cant easily be described verbally like a pincode, and it gets harder to do the more confused I am, so smacking me round the head or isolation and sleep deprivation would not improve my chances of accidentally describing the pattern. Note that I’m not an activist, criminal, reporter or political adversary, and I live in a very safe and democratic country so the likelihood of these things happening is very slim, but I still put a big emphasis on opsec when it comes to my technology.
A French scientist en route to a conference in Texas was detained upon his arrival at the airport, his phone unlocked and the poor bloke was sent hone without his phone and his computer because apparently he had written bad things about the current president on social media…
I heard of many recent border stories, but this one really sounds like an oppressive regime.
always lockdown your phone when going through customs. Take backups of your electronics before going to hostile countries, or consider bringing an old phone as a burner.
patterns and pins can be watched over shoulder though.
I heard somewhere that authorities can’t ask you for a PIN but can ask you for a pattern because of the way the law is written.
I’d love for someone to confirm that though.
Oh they can ask, but in certain conditions, my memory gets really bad…
Graphene can do both at the same time: fingerprint+password/pin as the second factor. This won’t stop someone from holding you at gunpoint, but at least it would stop cops (in some cases)
It does? How do you set it up?
Under Fingerprint Unlock -> Second Factor Pin
Not showing up for me, did they only add it recently?
And then the fingerprint scan fails 😵