--Originally published at Security
One may think that people who lock their smartphones is because they have something to hide, or even one is cheating his/her couple… JK!!!
Locking your phone is a big deal, almost everyone has their lives in those small devices, we have photos, contacts, mails, social media, notes, locations, calendar & schedule, and sometimes even our bank accounts, that is the real reason why we must have our smartphone locked minimum with one locking system. Even so, I admit that sometimes introduce a PIN number or do a pattern is annoying, that’s why I really love actual smartphones which has finger print scanner or even irises scanner, but do we really know which one is the safest method? Let me tell you…
Google has introduced a suit of Smart Lock options available for unlocking Android devices: Trusted Places (unlock at a specific location), Trusted Devices (unlock when connected to a specific Bluetooth device), Trusted Face (facial recognition), Trusted Voice (voice recognition) and On-Body-Detection. As you may see, all of this has the purpose of making faster the process of unlocking, but having the security as a disadvantage, the only one of those that I use is the Trusted Devices because I use it when my phone is connected to the car and I need to unlock it in a fast way. Apple has Touch ID and PIN code which has been proved that are safer than the “new” Google’s Smart Lock options, but last year when the Samsung’s note 7 was presented, the Korean company shows a new and different way of unlocking smartphones, irises scanner. Both options are safe, but not perfect.
There is a case of the German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen, in which a hacker was able to fake the minister’s fingerprints based only on
