Your heart rate at gunpoint

Re:Your heart rate at gunpoint by Bluestrike2 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:45AM (#11428352)

I guess the hope would be that you have a smart mugger. A dumb one might shoot you on principle for forcing them to remember what they'd see as a ridiculous password. "Forget it man, keep the damn phone" is probably pretty unlikely. Unfortunately.

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Re:Your heart rate at gunpoint by dmoy on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @03:08AM (#11428445)

Most muggers don't actually want to kill people. Murder brings the cops a lot faster.

Murder rate is like 25x less, and even less common for strangers. (Though like half of stranger murders are during robbery, so yea, just do what you're told)

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Re:Your heart rate at gunpoint by Bluestrike2 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @03:12AM (#11428468)

Definitely. An intelligent mugger likely isn't going to pull the trigger unless they think they have to or that have no choice. Of course, you have almost zero control over that so that probably sounds rather trite.

I was just joking about the dumb one shooting you, though I think any mugger would be pretty pissed if you rattle off a long gibberish password rather than "password1."

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