From f2d95e5403106332baac49efb2a5ab3bbfdc8b3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Scomparin Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:11:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added new post --- .../be-careful-with-fingerprint-unlock.md | 90 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/be-careful-with-fingerprint-unlock.md diff --git a/content/posts/be-careful-with-fingerprint-unlock.md b/content/posts/be-careful-with-fingerprint-unlock.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f58eff4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/be-careful-with-fingerprint-unlock.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +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. -- 2.25.1