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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by thisone on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:56AM (#15246688)
my phone is currently sat on my desk, about 10 inches from my right arm. I can, and do, check messages on it, by only repositioning my arm to unlock it.

I easily read any messages by glancing at the phone, never coming into any decent imaging range.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by heartbreak on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:30AM (#15247772)
Turn on the front camera, lay the phone on your desk. Can you see your face in the image? Then you can unlock your phone by glancing over at it.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by CocaKoala on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:39PM (#15252310)
My phone is on my desk next to my laptop in the same place where I've been texting my wife for the past five minutes. I have turned on the front facing camera.

My phone can see the very corner of my head and about half of my eyebrow. I do not want that to be enough to unlock my phone.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by microtherion on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:33AM (#15249044)
Apple would be happy to sell you a watch for that…
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by baby on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:28AM (#15247761)
If you have a mac you can use Messages to check your message on your laptop directly.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by mi100hael on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:15AM (#15248846)
Pretty much everyone at your standard 9-5 office job has their personal phone with them all the time and their personal computer with them none of the time.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by baby on Friday September 15, 2017 @09:25AM (#15256929)
You can work on a mac...
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by mi100hael on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:49PM (#15262080)
Signing in to personal accounts on a work computer is a terrible privacy practice and also unprofessional IMO.
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