One Steamboat, Two Steamboats...
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This is a recolored vintage photo?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]No, this is a lady from YouTube who makes videos about living in the USA during 1790-1840ish (sometimes later). She's been on Townsends a few times.
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The pin part is for security, your device is encrypted on first boot until you put in your pin. If someone attempts to get in your phone even via connecting your phone to a PC they can't because your phone is encrypted.
Shouldn't it be encrypted anytime it's locked? Also, why the PIN and not my finger?
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Android? How many apps do you have installed?
Androids compilation thing on startup is annoying as hell on low end phones. On high end phones it's much less of a problem.
I've got a Pixel 8a with Graphene. After the unskippable warning that the device is running a different OS, the actual boot-up is pretty quick.
The compiling of apps after big updates can take a while, but that happens in the background in userspace, after which you're prompted to restart all affected apps.
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Shouldn't it be encrypted anytime it's locked? Also, why the PIN and not my finger?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Just going to preface this by saying I'm not a security expert.
Phones have 2 encryptions states BFU (Before First Unlock) and AFU (After First Unlock). Self-explantory I think; when you login to your phone after putting in your password the first time, your phone will go into AFU state.
In BFU, almost everything is encrypted. In AFU if you dump the same data you will basically get a lot more information because some of the data is now decrypted. That's basically why you can access notifications, change settings around from your lock screen when your phone has been unlocked once but not the first time after reboot.
As for why PIN -- I'm not American but apparently in US you can be compelled by law to unlock your phone via fingerprint but law enforcement cannot force you to enter a PIN. More contributing factors: theoretically you can spoof biometrics more easily (I mean, people leave fingerprints everywhere), and one last thing is as a convenience factor it will help you to not forget your PIN (also why your phone will ask to re-enter your PIN every now and then)
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I've got a Pixel 8a with Graphene. After the unskippable warning that the device is running a different OS, the actual boot-up is pretty quick.
The compiling of apps after big updates can take a while, but that happens in the background in userspace, after which you're prompted to restart all affected apps.
Click the power button twice to skip the warning.
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Just going to preface this by saying I'm not a security expert.
Phones have 2 encryptions states BFU (Before First Unlock) and AFU (After First Unlock). Self-explantory I think; when you login to your phone after putting in your password the first time, your phone will go into AFU state.
In BFU, almost everything is encrypted. In AFU if you dump the same data you will basically get a lot more information because some of the data is now decrypted. That's basically why you can access notifications, change settings around from your lock screen when your phone has been unlocked once but not the first time after reboot.
As for why PIN -- I'm not American but apparently in US you can be compelled by law to unlock your phone via fingerprint but law enforcement cannot force you to enter a PIN. More contributing factors: theoretically you can spoof biometrics more easily (I mean, people leave fingerprints everywhere), and one last thing is as a convenience factor it will help you to not forget your PIN (also why your phone will ask to re-enter your PIN every now and then)
Thanks. That's very informative. All stuff I'd never thought about.
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Click the power button twice to skip the warning.
I ... I did not know that. Thanks.
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More like 10 minutes in my case. I am not joking. Android is a terrible operating system and the entire smartphone industry should be ashamed of itself for letting it get this bad.
I also use an android phone and it's fine, it might just be your manufacturer bulking it up with whatever
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Ten seconds? Holy crap that's fast. Mine takes minutes.
Cryptography and on-device app recompilation are the culprits here.
Takes time to decrypt the boot sequence code and data.
