Considering the number of times (provable) for me and many others forgot a password, why would this not be a good defense? Is it not safe practice to use different passwords for various access? And thus more liable to need a reset?
Regardless, it would not be that difficult to program a variation of a "dead man's switch" on a sensitive passcode, and if you're really paranoid, execute a time-command to brick the phone. "Because I'm sorry, your honor, you can have my password, except I was foolish enough to install software I found in the internets that as of last Tuesday turned my phone into a shiny object."
"Thad highlighted how natural an instinct this is when faced with restrictive media."
It's an old story with us Boomers. If we couldn't get the album or 45, we "stole" the song by putting a microphone in front of the (ad sponsored) FM radio and recording on cassette. Then again, we sometimes paid up to four times for the same thing: buy the vinyl, later the cassette, then the CD, and perhaps the iTunes. A bit too late, I used software to convert my analog vinyl straight to MP3.
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I forgot my password
Regardless, it would not be that difficult to program a variation of a "dead man's switch" on a sensitive passcode, and if you're really paranoid, execute a time-command to brick the phone. "Because I'm sorry, your honor, you can have my password, except I was foolish enough to install software I found in the internets that as of last Tuesday turned my phone into a shiny object."
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It's an old story with us Boomers. If we couldn't get the album or 45, we "stole" the song by putting a microphone in front of the (ad sponsored) FM radio and recording on cassette. Then again, we sometimes paid up to four times for the same thing: buy the vinyl, later the cassette, then the CD, and perhaps the iTunes. A bit too late, I used software to convert my analog vinyl straight to MP3.
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