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I just wrote over 100 words in assignment on how big a threat it is to have your phone stolen and some random person accessing your stuff. Then I remembered any smart person uses a passcode.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 15:57:05 UTC from web-
@ecmc 100? That's hardly a paragraph
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 15:58:06 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg it's still 100 words which are more pointless than I thought they were until I had wrote them. The whole assignment needs to be 1000 words.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:01:14 UTC from web-
@ecmc I thought you missed a 0 somewhere.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:02:25 UTC from web
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@ecmc Also passcodes aren't really all that secure, because people can look at the smudges you leave behind when pressing the screen and have a good chance at guessing your password from it.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:00:21 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg thats... A good point.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:03:49 UTC from web-
@ecmc It depends on what you meant by passcode. I assumed you meant a PIN, which is usually short. You can assign a full-length password like I used to use that was 24 characters and much harder to ever get.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:04:49 UTC from web -
@ecmc also as long as you wipe your screen off when you lock your phone, that's taken care of too, so.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:06:15 UTC from web
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@ecmc The best solution is remote nuke. Or to not get robbed in the first place by carrying an assault rifle everywhere you go.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:01:04 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark > install Predator > not worry anymore
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:02:15 UTC from web
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@snowcone Depends on what kind of code you have on it. If it's a PIN, it depends on if you use an easy to guess number, and if you use a full length password that can contain letters / numbers, it depends on if it's easy to guess, the length of the password, if it includes symbols, and if the phone's set to lock out after X failed attempts.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:15:51 UTC from web -
@snowcone A locked out iPhone can't be unlocked by anything other than its "Home" computer, and can't even be wiped without the persons iTunes password (Different to their phone passcode). You also can't turn off device tracking w/o the owners password too. Android phones can only be bypassed that via a computer if ADB debugging is enabled or the device has been rooted and has a file system you can molest from the bootloader stage.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:34:06 UTC from web -
@snowcone It wasn't originally. Android 1.1 had a bug in it that executed all commands typed into the keyboard /even if the device was locked/ as a root user. It also meant sending a text message containing the phrase "reboot now" was impossible
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 16:42:16 UTC from web -
@snowcone Android presents only the area configured as "SD" storage (Which might actually just be a partition on a bigger hard disk and not an SD card at all) and the devices internal storage section to machines it's connected to. The section containing the OS files is not accessible, or if it is, is not writeable. The iPhone only displays a read-only partition to let you grab photos off the camera roll without using iTunes.
Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 17:02:10 UTC from web
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