Originally Posted by
chx1975
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.