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by snassar 3647 days ago
A friend saw me entering my longish, non-trivial passphrase into my android phone and commented that I must not have many friends if I have to enter this passphrase every time to use my phone.

For a moment I was torn between being proud in my passphrase and sad at my lack of friends.
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kevin_thibedeau 3647 days ago
What's sad is your friend's superficial criteria for judging sociability.
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gcr 3647 days ago
You bring up an interesting UX issue.

If I need to be constantly available to my friends, "number of seconds to a text reply" is something that I need to minimize.

Longer passphrases prevent me from sending quick replies.

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616c 3647 days ago
Some of my more sophisticated friends take this a step further and taunt me for not securely hiding notifications and buying a smart watch.

This confuses me because Bluetooth over the air does not strike me a secure mechanism (is it just Bluetooth; ironically scant detail unless my Google-fu is off, likely at this hour for me).

http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/android-wear-hack-alert...

And do I need yet another smart device? The mobile first movement, with shinier crap, moving away from standard protocols, leads me to believe I have been passively perpetuating the biggest wart on computer science's labors. I am kind of embarassed, a few years in and late to the party, I bought an Android phone at all.

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