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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've always wanted a setting to create a lockdown key and an unlock key. So something like middle-finger to unlock but index-finger to force it into PIN/password only mode. So you can have some convenience of a quick unlock but if an authority figure asks or forces you to unlock it you can one-tap lock it down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That would be awesome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In GrapheneOS, a single wrong fingerprint disables fingerprint unlock until the password is entered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not correct. It just says not recognized, and let's you try again. I just tested it. Do you have documentation that it should work the way you said and mine is faulty?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry, I misremembered, it's 5 times instead of 20: more secure fingerprint unlock