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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (reason.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

face based and fingerprint based unlocking schemes is a bad idea.

if you dead someone can still unlock your phone with your corpse

[–] nehal3m 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are unable to care at that point though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stealing from an dead person is still stealing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

From their heirs, maybe.

I consider the real question to be how they ended up dead but you do you.