Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security

Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by mikeash on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:38PM (#15249699)

Before TouchID, I set my passcode to 0000 with a four-hour window where I didn't have to reenter it. I only had one set at all because Find My Friends refused to keep me logged in unless I had a passcode set.

With TouchID, I have a complex passcode that I have to enter a couple times a week. It's less secure than some hypothetical setup where I have a complex passcode I have to enter every time I unlock the phone, but it's far more secure than what I was actually doing before.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by phire on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:54PM (#15249915)

My android phone forces me to re-enter my passcode every 24 hours.

I think that strikes a nice security median. If someone does get procession of my phone, I only need to stall for less than 24 hours.

The rest of the time, the fingerprint scanner works near perfectly. It's actually faster to use the fingerprint scanner than the standard slide to unlock, which is all I ever had setup on my previous phones.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by dpkonofa on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:02PM (#15252489)

iOS does the same after 48 hours of not being unlocked or re-authorized. I agree that this seems like a decent security compromise. Anyone with physical access to your phone for more than 48 hours has other vectors to pursue that are far easier than just trying to guess your password.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by ruytlm on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:29AM (#15254642)

Is this a standard setting that can be managed?

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