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  • While that’s the strongest security option in that situation, it might cause more problems if they are forcing you to unlock your phone in front of them and you’re being observed. Same issue with the lockdown feature. Failing the fingerprint intentionally is invisible to the hostile observer and let’s you feign ignorance as to why you phone got locked.


  • You intentionally fail the biometrics a few times so it locks the device and requires the pin/password. From there it depends on the country. In the US, they can’t force you to give up a password, but they can force biometrics. If your country doesn’t legally protect you then there’s no software measure that can’t protect you at that point.










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    3 months ago

    This is a bit off topic and obviously bullshit, but I do recommend the social monitoring service, as well as freezing your credit. No real reason not to. I see freezing your credit as like setting a simple 2fa for your credit. You can unfreeze it at any time for free, and that extra bit of inconvenience of having to unfreeze it can stop impulse credit card sign ups. Also I have a “world class” Mastercard, but they also have free credit monitoring that I recommend. I think Visa might have something similar, but I’m not entirely sure.






  • It’s a great language to learn. The memory safety specifically. If you only use memory safe languages, you won’t know anything about how the memory is handled in the background. Start breaking and abusing memory, it’s the best way to learn why memory safety is important, what it’s doing different, and how it’s prevented.

    Getting deep in the trenches with memory allocation is the best way to learn, since all memory safe languages do this as well, they just hide it. It’s extremely useful to know what’s going on behind the scenes and is fundamental knowledge that applies to all programming languages, past and present, no matter how much they hide it.