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+title: "Be Careful With Fingerprint Unlock"
+date: 2021-06-16T19:11:19+02:00
+draft: true
+tags: [blog, phone, terminator]
+---
+
+Or I would even call it ___wierdness in the morning___.
+
+Today, I woke up a bit later than usual.
+
+My phone, a `Redmi Note 9 Pro`, apparently wasn't too keen on waking up
+itself and decided it wasn't the case to wake me up at the time my alarms
+where set the night before.
+
+Luckily I took a look at the alarm clock as soon as I was awake and it
+wasn't that bad.
+
+The phone was like frozen during startup showing the logo
+in the initial boot process.
+
+I quickly rebooted it and after a while (I think it's funny how long any
+computer takes to boot up today) the phone woke up and after entering my
+PIN and unlock code it looked fine.
+
+It just annoyed me a bit to do all my morning routine in a
+bit of a rush because of the alarm not ringing.
+
+I just went on with my day and drove my car to work, taking a mental note
+to double check this evening before falling asleep to the alarm is set and
+the phone is charging.
+Maybe test the alarm turning it on too before if I remember to do it.
+
+The first half of the morning went on fine at work.
+I went outside for a quick smoke and coffee break on a balcony with my
+colleague and went back inside after a while.
+
+That's when it actually happened, with `IT` being the
+__beginning of the robot uprising__.
+
+I put the phone in my shorts pocket after checking the news on it,
+inadvertently putting my thumb (I guess) over the on/off button, which is
+also the fingerprint scanner...
+
+I've always found it a bit annoying that when you turn on the screen it
+also unlocks the phone at the same time.
+
+The location of the fingerprint sensor always bothered me to be honest.
+The other phone had the sensor in the back near the camera, which personally
+I think was a bit more ergonomic, but it still calls you to fiddle around
+it and all over the camera lens glass so that it was always dirty when I
+needed to take a picture. Anyway...
+
+After a while (one and half, a couple of hours at most) I went to check the
+time on the phone and looking at it I found out a couple of weird things...
+
+1. My WhatsApp status (I didn't even know you could set a status on it) was
+changed to an animated GIF of a cheeky girl.
+2. A black picture with the text "00" was sent to my sister (I guess it was
+dark inside my pockets).
+3. The description of a group chat was changed (probably to `ee`, but I
+can't tell exactly because WhatsApp just notifies the description change,
+not what was changed to).
+4. A person I haven't heard in like 8 years (not that I had anything
+against her, we just went different directions) was added to the group chat
+I mentioned on the previous point on the list.
+Her name begins with an `A` so she was a pretty easy target up on the list
+of person to add.
+5. The description of the now famous, or infamous, group chat was changed
+other 2 times.
+The second time for sure to `ee`, that's what I found afterwards.
+6. The on screen keyboard was floating over the top of the screen, in a
+smaller size than usual.
+
+Yeah, so something funny to fix up.
+
+I removed from the group the new contact, and had to explain and apologize
+to her, my sister and all the other in the group chat about what happened.
+
+It has been pretty funny, and a bit sad, I felt like when you're an old
+guy and you don't understand a technology enough and you fuck around with
+it and mess it up and then get mad about it, besides the fact that it was
+actually your fault in the end.
+
+So, well, be careful when you think your phone is turned off, I suggest to
+not enable the fingerprint unlock besides being useful sometimes, the
+downsides are way more annoying than unlock your phone that one time you
+actually needed to make a call.
+
+Have a good day.