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no, thanks.
you can be forced to biometrically unlock your phone by police
Makes me wonder why no mainstream Android fork has bothered implementing a duress fingerprint feature. Maybe this is an opportunity for Linux phones.
Graphene has a duress PIN, but I’d like to see a feature where using the wrong fingerprint both locks the phone and opens into a fake, nondescript home screen to deceive the authorities.
The only other protection for anyone using biometrics at the moment is to reboot the device, which will always default to PIN unlock, but not so easy to do when caught by the authorities unawares.
GrapheneOS does have a duress fingerprint feature, but I believe the only result is to wipe the phone. A dummy profile option would be great. I could see this becoming an option in the future with the US authorities going after a couple people recently for wiping their phones with a duress pin/fingerprint.
Not if you don’t register your fingerprint into the device in the first place
yeah i never use biometrics
On GrapheneOS, I use a feature that blocks fingerprint for unlocking the phone, but still allows it for accessing apps. No idea how hard it’d be to implement that here, but it makes this work useful even to security/privacy conscious folks
noice
What is “linux mobile”?
Do they mean Ubuntu Touch? Postmarket OS?
I guess it’s going to be writing a linux driver for the sensor or adapting an existing one so that it picks up this particular device ID, and then some udev & pam rules to make it play nicely with the rest of the system. So it’s vaguely distro-agnostic.
That’s cool, I guess, though I’ll never use it for obvious reasons.
Sorry about the meat slicer accident :(
Damn mandolin locked me out of my phone.
With the lockdown on Android apps I was thinking of switching to a linux phone, what happened?
You should not use biometric identification because it’s much easier to force you to unlock the phone than with a pin or password.
To be more specific
What you know is legally protected. What you are is not.
I’m not, and not what I asked.
I think there were two levels of misunderstanding, by bad.
In my understanding jlow (OC) is talking about not using biometric identification, and you misinterpreted it as not using Linux on Fairphone. I then misinterpreted your comment to mean “why should I not use biometric identification when I switch to Mobile Linux” and responded to that.
Understanable, have a nice day.
A Spicy comment, but my perspective nevertheless. We’ve given this guy the correct place to post and talk about, and collaborate development for the fairphone 6… They are yet to come here, as far as I know.
If this is the same person who has been Pro-AI for his “Development” and has also yet to publish his source code, why are we still giving attention?
Under any other circumstances, specially if it were with another phone, I’d just complain about being in the wrong platform and using AI, but, The Fairphone 6 has had leaps and bounds of development, published to the mainline kernel, and also documented extensively in here, long before this person started posting in a dead “social” network.
I complain because it sometimes feels like they’re riding off the efforts of others, at best, and wasting a LOT of water at the very least. Feels unethical either way.
nitter instances down for legal reasons, archive.org also refuses to archive this site… I guess I’m not gonna read it then
Here you go my brother in Linux: https://archive.ph/7kev3
Edit: archive only archives pages, not videos.
I dont know why they’re making fingerprint a big deal. It’s actually a bad thing.
It’s cool if you’re 10 and just watched a sci-fi movie sure but ultimately should be phased out of android/Linux.
“Arguably a bad thing” rather. It’s better than face unlock for what it’s worth.
I like unlocking things with my fingerprint. But I go by the assumption that the technical fingerprints of my fingerprint are stored securely and aren’t even accessible by the OS.
