How you lock your smartphone can reveal your age: UBC study:
Older smartphone users tend to rely more on their phones' auto lock feature compared to younger users, a new UBC study has found. They also prefer using PINs over fingerprints to unlock their phones.
Researchers also found that older users are more likely to unlock their phones when they're stationary, such as when working at a desk or sitting at home.
The study is the first to explore the link between age and smartphone use, says Konstantin Beznosov, an electrical and computer engineering professor at UBC who supervised the research.
"As researchers working to protect smartphones from unauthorized access, we need to first understand how users use their devices," said Beznosov. "By tracking actual users during their daily interactions with their device, we now have real-world insights that can be used to inform future smartphone designs."
The full study is available through the ACM Digital Library.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday June 20 2019, @11:27PM
"I wonder, then, what you use your phone for?"
Did you make it through my entire post? It was only a few lines; and i thought I addressed your comment.
I absolutely do have a *things* on my phone that should be protected with a passphrase: A few folders. A few apps (yes including a password manager, mobile banking, etc just like you). plus an email account, again like you.
But having to protect my entire phone with a strong passphrase to secure that small number of things is annoying and stupid. I don't have any need for a passphrase to search for directions, or to place a phone call to order pizza, or send idle chatter to my wife or kids, to take a picture of a funny bumper sticker, play a game, look up a word in the dictionary or check when a movie came out, fiddle with spotify, or whatever... etc, etc, etc. A fingerprint is plenty to secure that... or even nothing at all. I am simply not worried about securing any of that.
i'd only like to be prompted for a passphrase when i access certain apps or folders or accounts, and its idiotic that its all or nothing. So now I have to enter a secure passphrase that's longer than the text message I want to send to my daughter "eta home?"