Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
reason.com
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
  • cheddarEnglish
    292·
    6 months ago

    Laughs in Galaxy S8 where the fingerprint scanner only works if all planets are properly aligned which happens only once in 28 years.

    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Dude I have this old Galaxy XCover thing for my work phone and I swear to god I’ve wasted 3x as much time repeating the stupid fingerprint unlock over and over than if I just always used my PIN. It’s such a piece of shit.

      “Cover the entire fingerprint sensor” “The fingerprint doesn’t match” “Try wiping the fingerprint sensor” “Try fingerprint again in 28 seconds”

      Try going ahead and fucking off, Samsung.