Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
reason.com
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
  • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    My point is that it doesn’t matter if Linux xan do this,

    So linuxphones you don’t consider as phones? Fine.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Wow, you still don’t get it.

      Show me a Linux phone that is actually configured to unlock with both biometrics and pin, then you have proven that Linux is relevant.

      I don’t care about what is technically possible, I care about it actually being done.

      I am not even asking if it is easy to setup or simple to use, I am just asking you to prove that it can be done on a Linux phone.

      I am just asking for a proof of concept running on a Linux phone.

      I am giving Linux the best possible chance here, the bare minimum.

      The tasks I want to see done on a Linux phone is the following:

      1. Prompt for a fingerprint, face scan, or any quick biometric.
      2. Once passed the biometric prompt successfully, the phone should prompt for a pin.
      3. once passed both prompts the phone should unlock.

      I love Linux, I have been a Linux sysadmin for almost a decade and used Linux on and off for almost twenty years. I daily drive Windows due to work and gaming, but am considering switching to Linux at home when Win10 goes EOL.

      But unless you can show me a Linux phone configured as described above then Linux is not the answer.

      For the time being I wish you a happy midsummer.