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Police Told to Avoid Looking at iPhone Screens Locked With Face ID
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Secret facial expression to force lock and disable/force erase the phone.
“This iPhone will factory reset in 5 seconds” —— mission impossible theme playing in head while activating this feature.
Problem solved.
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You're right. I really can't stand the purple people out there, and I'm glad we have those one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eaters.
What do you have against the Royal family?
Cyclops doesnt hate you and neither does Rhino. Are you a mutant hater
For the future.
And there are plenty of things that are just nobody's f***ing business.
And MPs in the United Kingdom are now able to hide their expense reports. That's because a few years ago they were caught out fiddling their expenses. Including the husband of the then Home Secretary letting the tax payer pay for his porn which was put on his wife's expenses. So if you have something to hide, and you are in power, then you hide it. That reminds me, American's still haven't seen Trump's income statements?
I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way, but you have zero idea about how law enforcement acts, behaves, what kind of power they have and how little recourse you have
What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander? Abuse of power and authority if you ask me.
You can do that. Just make sure your phone is backed up in the cloud, then do a factory reset. It's a brand new phone. Anyone can register it with their AppleID and password and restore their iCloud backup to it, and so can you of course. The only disadvantage is that any thief will also have a phone that they can put straight on eBay and sell at a good price. And it takes a while. If you have a 256GB phone full with stuff, it takes time.
I recommended a similar feature function to Apple before the release of iOS 12. I guess customer data privacy is just smoke and mirrors/lip service.
If you compare the ratio of people with ill intent to those who are law abiding citizen/people the ratio benefits the good. Yet we have laws that imposes on all, while the ill intent people have workarounds.
It depends on the situation. Having the passcode is obviously evidence that it is your phone. If the police doesn't have proof that it is your phone, then unlocking it would be self-incrimination. And if they have no proof that it is your phone, then of course it's possible that it isn't your phone and you have no idea what the passcode is.
If the police has proof that it is your phone, and get a search warrant for the contents of the phone, then unlocking the phone is not self incrimination, just like unlocking your safe with a murder weapon inside is not self incrimination.
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But the feature is there. Nothing Apple needs to do. It's just not very obvious. It's actually very non-obvious. I never thought of it until you mentioned it, even though I've done exactly the same thing when I bought a new phone. (Not quite exactly the same, I first restored the new phone, _then_ wiped the old phone).
But the problem is that "anything can be used against you in a court of law". They will twist perfectly innocent details around just to make you look guilty in front of a judge. It's not worth the risk.
I've always thought it's so easy to unlock someone's phone with face I'd.
If you are holding there phone, all you need to I'd hold the phone near their face. As a human you will naturally look at what someone has just put in front of you, and boom it's unlocked.
Far far easier than forcibly trying to get their finger into a sensor.
He'll, if it was the police they could even cover up most of the phone with something else just leaving the notch area clear, again you naturally without thinking look as something in front of you and they have full access, it's so easy with face id
If you are holding there phone, all you need to I'd hold the phone near their face. As a human you will naturally look at what someone has just put in front of you, and boom it's unlocked.
Far far easier than forcibly trying to get their finger into a sensor.
He'll, if it was the police they could even cover up most of the phone with something else just leaving the notch area clear, again you naturally without thinking look as something in front of you and they have full access, it's so easy with face id
True dat, it’s just not a very convenient and quick solution. If the security agent or law enforcement does not ask you for your phone, it’s just a PITA.
I thought that by clicking the power button 5 times puts the phone in "emergency" mode and locks it out.
Sounds like a Men in Black scenario.
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Character from GoldenEye movie, Boris.
I don’t even lock my door, said the little piggies who lived in a house of straw and sticks before the big bad wolf saved his breath and just walked right in.
I recall, ages ago, an (idiotic) relative telling us her newborn was safer traveling in her arms than in a child car seat, because she loved her new daughter so much that she would do anything to protect her (except, apparently, putting her in a proper child car seat specifically designed and tested to save children's lives). Makes about as much logical sense.
My iPhone 6, which is a year older and slower than your iPhone 6s, unlocks in perhaps a second with TouchID (and the ease of this allows me to have a complicated passphrase that I rarely have to use). I can't imagine that you're really saving much time.
These days, if law enforcement feels the need to take your phone, it's entirely likely they will start out by assuming you're guilty, and will proceed to interpret ever single innocent note, message, email, picture, etc., in the worst possible way. Why put yourself in the position of having to defend the innocence of every bit of information on your phone?
If you're worried about it getting returned, you could put a name and contact number (besides your iPhone's number obviously) onto the image you use for the lock screen. I used to do this back before Find My iPhone came out. These days, locating a lost iPhone is straightforward - you can go to any trustworthy computer or phone, log into icloud.com, see where your iPhone is right now (accurate to within a few meters), have your iPhone play a loud, unmistakable, pinging sound if/when you're nearby (even if it has been set to be silent, and the pinging can't be shut off without unlocking the iPhone), as well as remotely locking it and displaying any message you choose on your iPhone's screen (e.g. "please return this phone to me, John Doe, at ..."). Your "it can be easily returned to me" might have held water 20 years ago. Now it seems incredibly outdated.
(There's a story from shortly after Find My iPhone was released - two friends shared a cab, one accidentally left their iPhone in the back seat of the cab, they realized this a few minutes after they got out, used the other friend's phone to use "Find My iPhone" to track down the cab - when they came up to the cab and told the driver, "I left my phone in your back seat, I need to get it", the driver said, "no, there's no phone here" - so they turned on the pinging sound - and the sound played loudly from the lost phone - in the front seat, where the driver had put what he thought would become his new phone. Not all people who find things are good people. Imagine trying to get that iPhone back without Find My iPhone.)
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In the linked story they knew due to a 3rd party testifying that the defendant- using passwords from memory - showed her hundreds of child pornography images. In addition while the majority of the contents were encrypted apparently some where not. Between those two items and not claiming having forgotten the password(s) he triggered one of (if not only) few exceptions allowed to the 5th Amendment.
For a random pullover this wouldn’t be the case.
The fun issue is the trend towards saying that biometrics are not protected under the 5th.
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I know how it works. I just forgot to add the caveat that this only helps once you have a lawyer. Which unless you are one (or have one on retainer and can call them right then and there) generally doesn’t help on the spot.
The difference is that the police searching your home, car, backyard shed. safe, workplace desk, bank safe deposit box, etc does not require your speech. Just probable cause and a warrant signed by a judge. A safe can be forced open, if necessary. Your right not to speak under the 5th Amendment also includes the right to remain silent when law enforcement asks for your pass code.
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Im sure the fbi has unlock technology.Sure, reaching into your pocket while being arrested couldn't go wrong in any way.
Maybe, though they spend a lot of energy trying to force apple to circumvent its protections.
Not every government respects civil rights. In many places it’s inportant to be able to hide things.
You also can't use Apple Pay, keychain, or any other feature that requires secure entry.