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from the they-will-never-guess-my-age-because-I-leave-my-phone-unlocked! dept.
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: 3, Informative) by Snotnose on Thursday June 20 2019, @07:28PM
Um, as a phone I can carry around with me? I also don't have anything sensitive on my phone. I don't bank from it, I tried using email on it but that drove me nuts quickly. No password manager, no AWS access. I use it to keep in touch when out and about.
Someone breaks into my phone big whoop. You want my contacts? Do me a favor and figure out who these people are, because half of them I don't know. If I knew which half I'd delete them but I've learned the one sure fire way to remember what a contact was for it's to delete it.
The one thing I do have on the home screen is a README, which is an app I wrote myself and displays my email address. Hope is that if I lost the phone and someone finds it they'll drop me an email.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.