• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

    You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

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      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.

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      ⚠️ WARNING: On android, mashing the power button 5 times calls emergency services…

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        Not on my Pixel 6. 🤷‍♂️ It just does what I told it to do, namely to open the camera.

        Edit: these are some Reddit down votes. I just didn’t know I had this feature, and I apparently have disabled it, but I don’t remember doing so. Oh well.

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          Cool, you disabled the gesture. Clearly the default SO setting doesn’t apply to you…

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            I didn’t even know it existed. I had to search to find the setting, but I see it exists on my phone and it’s disabled. I don’t recall disabling it though.

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          Have to tried? On my Samsung pressing twice does the camera (as I’ve set it to) but doing 5 times tries to call emergency services.

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            They disabled it . I don’t understand why they even commented. It reads like some weird flex

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              I don’t know how it sounds like a weird flex. I was just asking. I don’t remember if it was something you could disable or not from when I had my pixel 5.

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              I didn’t even know it existed. I had to search to find the setting, but I see it exists on my phone and it’s disabled. I don’t recall disabling it though.

              It’s not a flex… 🙄 I was just confused about how it seemed so established that this was an “Android” feature, so should be activated on my phone too, but it isn’t. And now that I see I have the functionality disabled but people say it’s the default, I’m even more confused because I don’t remember even seeing this setting. 🤷‍♂️

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            I did, yeah. Gotta test before commenting, of course. I see I have the setting disabled for some reason. Don’t recall disabling it though.

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      In a getting pulled over situation, this works. But do it before you go protest anything. Or better yet, leave your phone at home. You don’t want to be reaching for something while a cop is pointing a gun at you and saying “Hands up!”

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        Not to mention it’s pretty regular to track who is participating by checking the towers in the zone all the people are participating.

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      That’s terrifying. So once we have tech to forcibly see inside the brain, that will be legal too?

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        “You shouldn’t be worried if you have nothing to hide” 🤷‍♂️

        Tap for spoiler

        /s

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        Probably. Wouldn’t it be good to have the truth during investigations?

        However I think that we really need refine when warrantless searches can occur. Right now many searches seem to be done with very little evidence to justify them. I think this protection should apply to your mind and phone just like it applies to your house. This probably also needs to be considered at border crossings. Right now they have basically unlimited rights for searching what you have on you with little to no evidence.

        We should probably also rethink about how the information is shared when there is a warrant. Right now during a trial a huge amount of personal information can be made available. Maybe if it was easier to get precise information less would be needed.

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        Pretty sure Apple would replace the buttons with pressure sensors – not for user comfort but so that they are no longer replaceable with OEM parts and can be serialized. They did literally this with Macbook sleep sensors.

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      You can also just long press a volume button with the lock button (with a FaceID phone). I find this harder to mess up under stress.