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February 22, 2012

Unlocking Your Smartphone: No Simple Task

Mike Isaac, Wired


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Unlocking a smartphone is perhaps its most basic function. Swipe your finger across your lockscreen, and you’re granted access to the home screen beneath. It’s a no-frills feature, but an important one. And yet over the past six months, the simple act of unlocking a phone has grown absurdly controversial.

 

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