These days, people password their phones to prevent theft or unauthorised access to their information.
Many people use the pattern lock, others
use the PIN or numbers but only a few use the fingerprint detector or
access to prevent unnecessary invasion.
According to a fraud examiner, who did
not want to be named, there are ways of gaining access to all the
password modes, except that of the fingerprint, which has not yet been
discovered.
“It is quite difficult and only the user
could open such a phone at any given time. Meanwhile, countries and
their agencies have devised means to get information generically from
phones for the purpose of security.
“And that is why, you see at the point of
entry of any international airport, a cotton swab is used to clean the
phones,the essence is to access information depending on the programming
and the information needed. If the essence is to track fraud or
terrorism, all activities relating to these things would pop up
including the social media activities.”
A technology user, Michael Wunmi, said he
never knew how powerful the fingerprint password was until he witnessed
an incident where some people’s phones were accessed easily at some
borders except the ones with the fingerprint detector, which was a
unique mode of identification.
At other times, someone you don’t know
may end up holding your phone. Or the fact that it was snatched out of
your hand—smart phone theft is on the rise. And you’re going to be
concerned because that phone holds a pocket-sized summary of your
digital life. It has photos of the places you have been and people in
your life. It also has a record of what you posted on the social media
or where you bank, among other things.
Here’s how you can keep strangers from
accessing your personal information, safely back-up and retrieve the
photos and videos you’ve stored in the device, and, with a little luck,
increase your chances of recovering your phone by activating the
fingerprint and GPS locator.
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