alt Hacker NewsHow many times do you unlock your phone a day? For some people it’s over 100+ times a day Face ID is convenient, useful and secure. The alternative? People will use short numeric passcodes that are easy to bypass with devices like Cellulite.
Instead, we should push for laws and protections around our private devices. The 4th Amendment actually protects our personal effects and imo this biometric loophole is illegal.
As the other commenter pointed out, in the meantime, practice how to quickly lock your phone - and better yet, when in dangerous situations, leave it behind or turn it off.
Does anyone know how devices like Cellebrite work? Like high level I assume it taps the numbers and has some algorithm that prioritizes common passcode patterns.
But how does it not get locked out the same way we do when we fail our passcode 5+ times in a row? Is it just super easy to get around that exponential lock-out for iOS?