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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (reason.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are unable to care at that point though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stealing from an dead person is still stealing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

From their heirs, maybe.

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