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Five security lessons from the FBI’s Washington Post raid (freedom.press)

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[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You can also quickly disable biometrics at any time by holding the power button and the volume-up button on your phone at the same time.

Random advice like this is worse than no advice, given they mean, "some people can do that on specific phones".

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 16 hours ago

On Android, you apparently just have to push the power button several times (six times, I think?). But yeah, the assumption that it's universal is tantamount to sharing misinformation.