does anyone carry their smartphone without a lock screen?
Apr 16, 2017, 11:10 pm
#17
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I have the swipe screen but not a lock screen. What for? If the phone is stolen any competent thief will factory reset it in a heartbeat. If I lose and it's a benign lost-and-found I will want the kind person finding my Nexus 7 to be able to discover it is mine. So... what for?
Apr 17, 2017, 1:23 pm
#18
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Up until my latest smart phone, I have to admit I was one of those that didn't bother with anything more than the simple swipe to unlock. It was always just annoying to me to enter a code to get into the phone, so I didn't like it.
With the phones with fingerprint sensors, it got easy enough that I went that route. Not sure I like the trend of them moving that to the back of the screen in a misguided attempt to free up front space by removing a home button though.
With the phones with fingerprint sensors, it got easy enough that I went that route. Not sure I like the trend of them moving that to the back of the screen in a misguided attempt to free up front space by removing a home button though.
Apr 17, 2017, 3:57 pm
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Yeah, well, of course, it's the "skeleton key" to our digital lives... I guess. Maybe I need to reconsider the levels of cynicism I have grown towards security.
Apr 20, 2017, 8:03 am
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The only reason why I put some kind of screen lock other than a swipe screen was because I wanted to use Samsung Pay. The only place I lose my phone is in my house.
Apr 20, 2017, 8:31 am
#22
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I have the swipe screen but not a lock screen. What for? If the phone is stolen any competent thief will factory reset it in a heartbeat. If I lose and it's a benign lost-and-found I will want the kind person finding my Nexus 7 to be able to discover it is mine. So... what for?
I'm not sure where you acquired this information but it certainly does not apply to recent iPhones.
If you recall, the FBI had to pay an Israeli company a reported $1M for a program to unlock the 3 year old iPhone from the Sacramento terrorist shooter a while back, because Apple wouldn't do it for them. The security of current models is much higher than that phone was, and is considered virtually unbreakable with a decent passcode.
You cannot "Reset It" without it being unlocked first.
Apr 20, 2017, 4:14 pm
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I was getting lunch today and I spotted a Samsung phone on the counter that someone had obviously forgotten. Just before I picked it up to see if they had any contact info on the lock screen a bloke appeared next to me to claim it. He had a picture of him and family on the screen to identify it as his but no lock at all. I suggested he added one to which he said it was brand new and had forgotten to do it. 
Apr 20, 2017, 6:20 pm
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I was getting lunch today and I spotted a Samsung phone on the counter that someone had obviously forgotten. Just before I picked it up to see if they had any contact info on the lock screen a bloke appeared next to me to claim it. He had a picture of him and family on the screen to identify it as his but no lock at all. I suggested he added one to which he said it was brand new and had forgotten to do it.
Apr 20, 2017, 6:46 pm
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Apr 20, 2017, 7:11 pm
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Apr 20, 2017, 7:23 pm
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Apr 21, 2017, 3:43 am
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Apr 21, 2017, 8:09 pm
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I had a P38 "confiscated as a weapon but not 4" scissors.
