Comment by 🪴 mstrmeow
Re: "Maybe it's the wine talking but Apple and Google should..."
hehehhehehhh wine hehehhehehheh
Apr 08 · 6 months ago
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🚀 stack · 2025-04-08 at 11:57:
If you use Apple or Google tech...
🛰️ lufte · 2025-04-08 at 13:55:
Great idea for an app. F-Droid can perfectly install/uninstall other apps without root, so this app could also do so.
🚀 stack · 2025-04-08 at 14:20:
I am terrified of biometrics. They will take your eye or finger, or if this app gets popular, the whole hand. With an axe, most likely. Maybe your whole face too, and put it on a balloon.
With a password at least they will keep you alive to torture you, so there is some hope.
It's grim either way.
🦎 bluesman [OP] · 2025-04-08 at 15:35:
The question is whether an app can have priority over the default lock screen. How about a task running in the background that responds to several seconds of violent shaking?
🦎 bluesman [OP] · 2025-04-08 at 15:35:
@stack I hear you.
its called pam-duress. in theory android allows 4 user profiles, so we could create a fake clean user profile. but 99% of vendors disable this, same with encryption which does not really exist.... our phones will harm us...
https://lwn.net/Articles/867158/
👻 darkghost · 2025-04-08 at 20:35:
When wine talks to me it usually says there is an error in some DLL.
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Maybe it's the wine talking but Apple and Google should offer an option to delete designtated apps off your phone when an emergency "unlock" code is entered. Better yet, when using your ring finger or pinky on the fingerprint reader. You never know these days when that might save you a trip overseas.
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