Pro-tip: get a folding phone and use biometrics happily. If the cops come for you. Snap it in half. /S
Pro tip: every phone is a folding phone if you try hard enough.
What an awful day.
Power+volume up > lockdown
This is extremely dependent on what phone you’re using
I think it’s pretty much every modern android, no?
This has been a feature on my last pixel phones as well as my latest Sony android phones
Doesn’t seem to do anything on my samsung phone, but maybe that’s because I don’t have biometrics on
Huh, perhaps Samsung just changed the button combo as they’ve been known to do? 🤔
Thanks for the reminder
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Didn’t work for me
You have to keep them pressed until the turn off screen appears, then just cancel the turning off
Is this an iPhone or Android thing?
Edit:
On my pixel 6 I see this. I have no idea what this is or what it does
Edit 2:
"When you put the phone into “Lockdown,” it disables all those less-secure unlock methods. The fingerprint scanner, face unlock, and Smart Lock are completely disabled. Only the PIN, pattern, and password can be used. "
I assumed android because we’re on lemmy but I bet it’s an iPhone thing.
I’ll stick with power off or reset since that’ll force a pin.
Power and volume up for me shows a lockdown button so it’s either android or both.
So tempting just to reply ‘yes’ :)
But it’s iPhone at least.
Volume up and lock shows lockdown on my pixel 6 so it’s either android or both.
Not for me. Turn off screen only appears after holding power down for a second (and gives lockdown option). Power+vol up does nothing.
What iPhone you have?
None at the moment, meant on Android. At the time it wasn’t clear what platform they meant.
Turn your phone off before handover. They require pin at power on, which at least at this time cannot be compelled.
One second officer, let me just power down my phone real quick.
What percent of arrests do you suppose happen with SWAT storming your house with flashbangs?
No idea. But it’s worth considering that there are cases where you might not have the opportunity to power it down.
And what are the percentage of those cases?
The percentage is non-zero. But if you are really concerned about the percentage, you probably shouldn’t rely on this method. It’s a judgement call.
Never use biometrics to lock anything. You can be forced to push a finger to a sensor, or your head forcibly held still for a facial scan.
Only use passwords/passcords. only they are secure against this totalitarian bullshit.
They’ll still put you in jail on fake charges if you refuse to give your passcode, but at least your datas safe and now your case is unlawful imprisonment instead of relying on octogenarian judges thinking its okay to force compliance with a biometric.
This ⬆️
Or that? Come on with this stupid Facebook shit comments.
Only use passwords/passcords. only they are secure against this totalitarian bullshit.
Oh sweet summer child. Password is as easily beaten out of you as biometric.
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/538/
If we’re talking about a situation where they can just straight up beat you legally until you give them a passcode, then what’s on your phone likely doesn’t make a difference in the outcome.
Oh it does. It could be some information throwing shade on other people
On iOS hold power and volume up until SOS/power off options appear. TouchID/FaceID is now disabled until the next time you input the code.
Also you’re experiencing some amnesia due to the stress of interacting with a cop.
5 taps on the lock button works too
I’ve always wondered why phones don’t have a locked dowm “guest mode” that’s accessible by typing in a non admin password/pin.
Some do. You can also just restart a phone real quick and it’ll demand your passcode not biometrics.
The passcode itself isn’t circumvented by this, after all.
But locking/resetting your phone should be an urgent thing, if you suspect the police will take it. Apple also does this if you hit the power button 5 times fast.
Samsung phones have a lockdown mode you can get to when you keep the power button pressed (like when you want to shut down). The legal situation is the same here in Germany - fingerprint unlock can be forced, regular pin or other measures not.
FaceID can also be forced, they aren’t allowed to force you to give up anything you “know” as in pin/password/pattern etc.
What happened to being secure in our documents and personal affects?
Is the constitution a joke to you?
The constitution is only used to protect property rights of the owners and the power of managers. The working class is not often afforded it’s protections.
In this case, the defendant was on parole, so there was already a court order allowing the search of his devices.
Payne conceded that “the use of biometrics to open an electronic device is akin to providing a physical key to a safe” but argued it is still a testimonial act because it “simultaneously confirm[s] ownership and authentication of its contents,” the court said. “However, Payne was never compelled to acknowledge the existence of any incriminating information. He merely had to provide access to a source of potential information.”
If you can be compelled to hand over a key to a safe, I can see how that translates to putting your thumb on the scanner.
US “constitution” sounds honestly like a joke to me
But Gym Jordan can ignore a congressional subpoena. Chyea I’m not giving my thumbprint.
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Luckily LineageOS and GrapheneOS have a lockdown mode (Graphene also supports disabling fingerprint for screen unlock), though rebooting your phone usually doesn’t cause you to lose any work since everything autosaves as phones kill background apps to save battery and memory. Separate user profiles for situations like protests or certain contexts (preferably with some dummy data to make it not look to sus) are also useful.
It’s very unlikely the OS actually kills apps in the background as that would legitimately break many apps and is a source of frustration from other OEMs.
There’s a difference between killing an app and putting it into a less active state.
When you swipe an app away from your recent lists, it’s not actually killing it, its just putting it in a different state.
When your force stop an app from its info under settings, you’re actually killing it. Nothing about it is alive.
When you actually kill an app, things like alarms stop functioning. The app needs to be alive for the alarm to function. Even so much that when you set an alarm on your phone, you need to set the alarm again after rebooting as they arent permanently stored and if the phone is rebooted the app needs to be woken up and the alarms re set. There’s a whole development workflow to do that.
There was a brief period many years ago when an OEM actually force killed an app when swiped away from recents without fully understanding the implications and they later reverted the change.
Push notifications of any type would also completely cease functioning.
I always hated how android phones seem to have everything running. This certainly explains why there is no proper task manager in them.
to lose* any work
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For Android, in the notification shade, you can hit the power button and there should be an option called “Lockdown” which prevents biometrics from unlocking your phone, just like when it first boots.
There’s also app pinning (has to be enabled in settings) where you can lock an app in the task manager and clicking the bubble at the top and select “Pin”. You can’t swap apps or go back to the home screen without password/biometrics.
Piggybacking on this: you can still access your camera in lockdown mode if you’ve enabled the lock button double-press gesture, just in case you want to record your interaction with the pigs for good measure.
Oh thank you for this. I’ve seen the lockdown but I never really looked into what it does. Not that I am one to frequently be in a position where I’m concerned about being forced to thumb my phone, but it’s nice to know. Even being a middle aged white dude, one never really knows when you might be perceived as having looked at a jack boot the wrong way.
Different models also come with the quick trigger for lockdown so don’t actually have to go into the menu and tap it. You just have to look in the settings under Security to find it, usually.
But realistically speaking, the simplest thing to do with Android is just turn it off. Hold the power button for a few seconds, it shuts down, and when they try to boot it back up it will demand a pin code first.
There was already a case with this same fingerprint outcome a few years ago. Biometrics are not protected from seizure.
However, passcodes still are. Last time I checked you cannot be compelled to surrender your passcode locking your phone.
Which is also why both iPhone and Android have panic/lockdown modes.
For my android, if I rapidly tap the fingerprint reader or the power key five times in a row, it locks down and will only be unlocked with a password. I understand iPhones have this same activation method too. Different Android models might have different activations, so you’d have to check the settings.
You can also just hold the power key and shut the phone down, because it’s pretty standard now that upon a reboot you have to put in the pin first before you can use fingerprint.
You can also just hold the power key and shut the phone down
Not on Android 14 at least, if not 13. They moved it to your slide-down menu, hold power is the assistant these days.
You might be able to change it in settings, but that’s the default.
On OneUi holding the power button still brings me to the restart, power 9ff, emergency, medical info menu.
Edit to add: Android 14, OneUi 6.1
Out-of-the-box it’s set to Wake Bixby, but it can be changed to Power off menu. One of the first things I changed when I got my phone.
Just made me almost call 911 trying it, gave me a real spook. At least I know how to quickly call 911 now
Edit: in LineageOS 21, this is configurable under Settings > Safety & emergency > Emergency SOS
Same happened here. Didn’t even know the emergency SOS mode was a thing.
For my android, if I rapidly tap the fingerprint reader or the power key five times in a row, it locks down and will only be unlocked with a password.
Mine just starts the camera app 😂
I probably changed the setting and forgot 😅
Where do you get that? I can’t seem to find it.
For my iphone at least, to shut off the power you have to tap volume up, volume down & hold the power button to show the poweroff option. I think cause you can map multiple clicks to actions.
Well I just found out my phone does this but it’s half fucking baked
It’s one of those foldable (clamshells) and this works while the phone is open, but even if biometrics is disabled and it asks for a password, biometrics still works to unlock the phone while folded, and then stays unlocked after opening…
So the only safe way is to shut it off completely so the storage isn’t decrypted yet
Whoops. Apparently my android version has 5x power button pressed call 911.
It does require a pass code on hard power cycle though, which is what I use when going through security (when I remember)
Edit - holding power and volume down shuts the phone down
Hah. Did the same thing. Hit cancel right away. I’m sure there’s a setting to change that.
Also, you can add a “Lockdown mode” button in the power menu where there are Power off and Restart buttons. No need to power off that way.
I just tried this on my iPhone and it worked like a charm.
Which is also why both iPhone and Android have panic modes.
When you are encountering police that would be seizing your phone in the near future, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND AGAINST quickly shoving your hand in your pocket to try to lock your phone.
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our phones!
I’m glad my passcode is 1 2 3 4 5!
They will never get that out of me!
Stay out of my luggage!
And my air shield!
Biometrics are ids like a username, not secret and something you can’t change. Using them for passwords has risks.
This is becoming a grey area.
In several states, especially where CBP is involved, there are legitimate challenges to this protetion.
Even so, biometrics SHOULD be protected under 5th amendment. The fact that it isnt seems very anti-freedom.
Keep giving them possible passwords since you don’t remember exactly what you changed it too and don’t perform well under pressure.
give us your password
“I cannot recall”
Or are we not rich enough for that line?
Since when have the courts ever cared about the constitution? Other than the 2nd amendment
Like, all the time? What are you even talking about? The 5th amendment is an extremely powerful legal protection. It’s been violated before, but in the vast, vast majority of cases, it’s rock solid.
Make your password “I’ll never tell” so when they ask for it, you can give it to them without lying but they still won’t know it.
You can also make it a statement of intent to commit or confession of an illegal act and the 5th protects you from being forced to say it.
Ijaywalk might do the trick
Don’t use fingerprint to unlock phone. They can force your fingerprint, but they can’t force your password … So just use a password. Problem solved
Edit: wow pulptastic shared this gem: Power+volume up > lockdown
My original comment: Restart your phone if they ask for it. Then it will need a passcode and can’t be unlocked by a fingerprint
They can beat the shit out of you - along with the password
Passcode, baby, I’m coming back to you!
For iPhones, a reboot will require passcode even if you have biometrics configured.
I think that’s all phones
You don’t even need to reboot. Just holding the shutdown combination to pull the menu up is enough to activate the passcode lock. You can just hit cancel after that.
OR you could carry a knife with you and chop off your thumb if they try to arrest you
Nah, then they get you for littering and open the phone.
You have to walk around with a hotplate so you can sear your fingerprints off.
I feel like a lighter would do
I prefer to just have my phone’s fingerprint reader loaded with a non-fingerprint. You can use any part of your body, really. Use your imagination. It’ll be functionally impossible to unlock your phone even using that same part of your anatomy later, even if anyone could guess what it was.
So then your phone will ask for a fingerprint but none of your fingers will ever in a million years actually unlock it. Jack booted thugs are welcome to try; they will fail. To actually use your phone, just enter your PIN or passcode.
Rub my dick on the phone or chop off my thumb? Decision, decisions
Obviously the decision here is an easy one…
Know where to get a good whetstone?
ACAB
All courts are bastards?
All Canadians are Bipedal
I cannot hear the word bipedal without thinking of Metal Gear lol. Idk why, it’s not like they’re the only giant bipedal robots in fiction
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Well that’s ablist. :P
This reminded me, sorta unrelated but the ff14 community is incredibly ableist when it comes to gameplay. Don’t you dare mention combat macros cause they’ll all start screeching at you. Never mind that you have arthritis and carpal tunnel and just want to play without much pain from spamming.
Even the wow community wasn’t bad at this, plenty of sites and people willing to help, iirc they even helped a quadriplegic play wow.
The only time I ever saw mention of macros being an issue I ever saw was from super sweaty guilds, where every ounce of performance was needed. During any sane, reasonable play session, I’ve never seen anyone mention them.
I’ve encountered it in the wild a bit. Most of the time it’s regular people parroting the sweatys but it’s still ableist. Even my lovely but terrible gamer girlfriend told me I shouldn’t use combat macros and then I lovingly told her she sucks and that some macros could help her. She often forgets to use ogcd spells and I weaved a couple in her regular filler spell. Her dummy damage actually went up. I’m all for doing stuff that help people regardless of the reason.
I don’t even think anyone would ever notice in a regular play session. Which makes it weirder they get all aggro about it online.
I may have just stopped too early to have gotten it in game. I only got to… The one after heavensward lol. But yeah, anyone who wants to complain about it, they can pound sand lol
