iPhone/Android/Touchscreen Tip

If you have a touch screen device that requires a password to unlock, and the location of the password is fixed on the screen, add repeating digits to you PIN. For obvious reasons.

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You're a member of the French Resistance in the height of WWII. You're part of a network of resistance members who have to work with other resistance members they've never met before.
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Good info. I am constantly wiping my screen because I hate those smudges but now I am vindicated. A little.

Of course, if the password protection designers were interested in security the least little bit, they would throw up the 10 keys in a different and random pattern each time...

Just sayin'

How embarrassing! Advertisements for magnetic perpetual motion machines appearing on Science Blogs!
"Hojomotor" is an actual scam - so why are Science Blogs allowing them to advertise?

By Vince Whirlwind (not verified) on 02 Jan 2012 #permalink