• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I still don’t get where are you seeing this advice in the article. No one is recommending “6 digit passcodes”. AFAIK all contemporary phones use mixed character passwords these days. I just setup a second hand s22 and it asked me to create a full password as primary authentication with all of the brute force strength hints etc.

    Your perception might be a bit outdated here.

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      6 months ago

      As I said in my first comment, I’m more familiar with iOS, where 6 digit passcodes are the default.

      That said, do you genuinely think the average person would use a random 10+ alphanumeric character passcode to unlock their phone after taking the advice of this article and disabling biometric auth?

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        6 months ago

        Yes the contemporary phones literally bug and warn you if you don’t. Password is much easier to remember than 6 digits too imo.