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Plzbanmebrony t1_jaqx8ha wrote

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it_administrator01 t1_jar5a8c wrote

or just leave it on because not everyone has things to hide from police

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Plzbanmebrony t1_jaraqna wrote

They will find something. Pleading guilty is often far cheaper than a trial. They are counting on that.

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it_administrator01 t1_jarbmao wrote

And I'm counting on just using biometric security rather than living out of fear that police are going to randomly pull me aside and insist on looking through my phone

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Plzbanmebrony t1_jarcdru wrote

Wait where do you live? Which nation.

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it_administrator01 t1_jarebvw wrote

My time is divided up between the UK and the US

My point is that I don't just walk around as an average citizen in fear of law enforcement randomly targeting me and my phone - frankly that's a strange way of living and an even stranger justification of removing one of the biggest QoL improvements that smartphones have had in the past 15 years.

If I was a drug dealer or terrorist, sure - passcode only, but living out of fear that police are randomly going to target me out of the blue, and then scour the 55000 photos/1m+ messages on my phone until they find something incriminating is a comical level of paranoia and epitomises the attitude of the average redditor with limited real world experience. There are faster ways for police to fill their quotas.

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