Posted on 10/17/2016 2:58:02 PM PDT by MeganC
Link only - not sure of copyright issues with Forbes.
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The whole thing boils down to the Feds wanting warrants to authorize fishing expeditions...meaning they want to be able to get a warrant to allow them to look for things they don't know about and then be able to use those things as evidence against you. How the hell is that Constitutional????
A good reason never to use the fingerprint unlock. I do not.
I don’t see Forbes on the copyright list.
;-)
Don’t use finger print security.
Time to have an OS with multiple fingerprints in it. If you give the correct finger or pattern of fingers you get in. Use the wrong ones and it wipes the phone (with a cloth?). Then the FBI not only needs your prints, they also need to know left middle, left index, left middle to get in. Use the right index and the data goes away.
which is why I do not use a fingerprint to unlock my phone.
General warrants are illegal.
Aren’t everyone’s prints already on file through the DMV?
I found a great work-around on this. It allows me to still use my fingerprint for access.
I decided about 45 years ago not to do anything illegal.
I’ve screwed up a couple of times since then, but my phone would never figure in, and I just don’t bother doing things I don’t want to pay the penalty for.
Law enforcement is able to access my phone with no problem.
The whole thing boils down to the Feds wanting warrants to authorize fishing expeditions...meaning they want to be able to get a warrant to allow them to look for things they don’t know about and then be able to use those things as evidence against you. How the hell is that Constitutional????
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Are you sure? A warrant is supposed to state specifically what they are looking for.
What will you do when they retroactively decide that you did something illegal?
Google "Three Felonies A Day".
Yes not good today at all, been slow but today worse for that.
Plus — record some of the prints upside down and/or sideways — and add in a few toes... ‘-)
The iPhone can't easily be opened without a "live" fingerprint. The technology looks for biometric factors to be sure it's a real finger, and not an impression or a print.
I think that someone has been able to defeat it, after a lot of trial-and-error. But, that was an early version of the sensor.
Are you sure you’re safe? Most of us leave our email accounts signed in on our phones. I leave FreeRepublic signed in on my iPad.
It is getting to the place where stipulating that “All Lives Matter” would be considered hate speech in some locales. Discouraging words against a certain “religion” (a disguised political movement) is Islamaphobic. And you better be willing to bake a cake for ALL groups, if asked. Would you really pass muster?
The iPhone stores fingerprints in a position independent fashion. So, it doesn't matter what orientation you use -- it will unlock the phone.
I’m at the point in my life where I couldn’t care less.
If they can come up with something I did that comes within twenty miles of a felony, they deserve to get me for the effort alone.
The iPhone stores fingerprints in a position independent fashion. So, it doesn't matter what orientation you use -- it will unlock the phone.
Not in NC, at least not the last time I renewed. I don't remember them ever getting it.
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