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[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They can be dickish about several things, but they will implement whatever they want, it's their project LOL! They actually develop a mobile operating system for people afraid of being hacked, and with the utmost security in mind.

The thing with pattern unlock is that it is inherently less secure than the other options, despite the fact that you can use one of the other options in bad ways (like the '0000' PIN). Expecting them to change this is using the lowest common denominator possible, which is against their philosophy.

You do have other options if you want to deGoogle, like LineageOS, that supports a much wider range of devices (altough the extent of deGoogling can be limited). It's good we have one ROM (among others) with paranoid devs - we have more options

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The thing with pattern unlock is that it is inherently less secure than the other options

Does Graphene scramble the keypad between PIN entries? If not, it's functionally the same as a pattern unlock.

[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago

That's good then. A lot of stuff uses the standard numberpad.