I've been thinking about this a lot lately as well... the smudges on my screen DEFINITELY make my security pattern obvious.
This is definitely not a great idea if Android wants to make strides towards the enterprise. I would think that it would be pretty simple to implement the standard pin/passphrase, right? On Nov 10, 9:09 am, JDub <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed and debated to death by now, but I > thought I'd throw in my two cents after using my Droid for a few days. > > At first the unlocking pattern utility is really cool ... but the > smudges left behind might make it easy for someone to guess what > pattern you are drawing. I find myself trying to determine what > patterns would best account for my oily fingers. > > A better implementation would have the dots spaced with random > variations/distortions. For example, the dots could be uniformly > stretched out or contracted, non-uniformly stretched/contracted (ex: > one side a la trapezoid), or the entire grid could vary in its > orientation or placement. All of this of course would be random. > > As it exists, I personally would rather have the traditional pin/ > keypad.
