I'm a little late on this thread, but I just wanted to say that your
description of the "Problem" is as clear (and accurate) a description as
I have seen, and I am exactly the kind of user you are describing :).
I would love to have the option of setting two values for the screen
lock. One that requires a Password/PIN to log in .. and another for the
screen locking. In my case, I would set the Password/PIN option to a
very high value, say about 6 hours.. That way, if my phone was stolen,
or lost, it would only be usable for that first day, and it would not be
much of a pain for me to login once a day.
The OTHER thing that GOOGLE should do is to offer an option to brick
your phone from your GOOGLE email account, and maybe ANY Google app. As
you need a GOOGLE email account to setup your phone, and it would likely
be one of the first places a thief would look for sensitive information.
It wouldn't be that hard to do... just issue a GUID type number to the
phone when you tell it to brick itself... and that number is now your
PIN.. and then offer the user a secure place to retrieve that GUID if
the phone is found. It could even be such simple security as it is only
shown on the email account 24 hours or more after the phone is bricked.
If Google wants some good PR, having a few good news stories about
someone's phone being stolen, and how easy it was to brick the phone to
keep their sensitive information secret would certainly go a long way :)>
Anway.. my take on the issue..
Brad.
following:
People (private Android users) are aware that they have stored a lot
of sensible data on the smartphones, because of this some of them
would like to protect this information a little bit better... this is
where the Lock Pattern of Android (or with Froyo also the Pin or
Password) comes into the game.
All the basic lock features that Android provides to the users have
one disadvantage... Ones enabled, they always on. Each time you want
to use your phone you have to deal with the lock (pattern, pin or
password).
For private users this is often a bit to much and in the end they
deactivate the security pattern again.
What is missing from my point of view (and most likely the point of
view from thousands of users of apps like PatternControl, AutoLock
etc.), is an option like "Enable the lock only if I didn't used the
phone for xxx minutes".
Best regards
Lars
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