Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords
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The Register looks at how simple JavaScript in the web browser loaded onto a smartphone can guess, pretty accurately, what your pin is even on the first try by tying into open motion sensors on the mobile devices to figure out what motions are being used.
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@mlnews said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
The Register looks at how simple JavaScript in the web browser loaded onto a smartphone can guess, pretty accurately, what your pin is even on the first try by tying into open motion sensors on the mobile devices to figure out what motions are being used.
I have not use the four digit pin for my phone password in hell five years or more.
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@JaredBusch said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
@mlnews said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
The Register looks at how simple JavaScript in the web browser loaded onto a smartphone can guess, pretty accurately, what your pin is even on the first try by tying into open motion sensors on the mobile devices to figure out what motions are being used.
I have not use the four digit pin for my phone password in hell five years or more.
Apple doesn't allow it on modern devices. Some of my kids' devices still allow four digit pins, mine does not.
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@scottalanmiller said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
@JaredBusch said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
@mlnews said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
The Register looks at how simple JavaScript in the web browser loaded onto a smartphone can guess, pretty accurately, what your pin is even on the first try by tying into open motion sensors on the mobile devices to figure out what motions are being used.
I have not use the four digit pin for my phone password in hell five years or more.
Apple doesn't allow it on modern devices. Some of my kids' devices still allow four digit pins, mine does not.
Yes it does allow it on iPhone 7. But you got to capture a bunch of are you really sure that's what you're trying to do before let you
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I'm not going to enter an 8 - 10 character password on my phone every time I need it. I'd spend the entire day trying to get the password right, lol.
*hides tin foil hat*: I'm also not going to use the finger print sensor or facial recognition either. I just set my phone to self destruct after 10 wrong entries.
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@dafyre said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
I'm not going to enter an 8 - 10 character password on my phone every time I need it. I'd spend the entire day trying to get the password right, lol.
*hides tin foil hat*: I'm also not going to use the finger print sensor or facial recognition either. I just set my phone to self destruct after 10 wrong entries.
I current phone password is nine characters text not numeric. But I hard to use it because that's with the f***ing biometrics are for.
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Siri and I are not getting along well this morning I don't know why
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@JaredBusch said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
Siri and I are not getting along well this morning I don't know why
She's busy trying to figure out your password.
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@scottalanmiller said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
@JaredBusch said in Your Phone's Motion Sensors Might Be Leading Your Passwords:
Siri and I are not getting along well this morning I don't know why
She's busy trying to figure out your password.
She's got to be doing something, because I just clarified the disaster in that other thread and it took me like two minutes speaking very slowly to get that post out.
