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No Google, Adding Biometrics is the Opposite of Security and Privacy (infosec.pub)

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[–] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

I travel a few times a month to US, China, Hong Kong etc.

I shut down my grapheneos phone on the border. Graphene also allows you to set auto reboot to phone if unlocked from 10mins to like 72 hours.

I do use biometrics on my device. I think its a tradeoff I'm willing to make.