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Fingerprint readers on phones

I can clearly remember my first reaction when I heard about fingerprint readers on phones. It was a stream of thoughts along the lines of "I bet that will be broken in an matter of days, biometrics are not ready for prime time", "You don't go around leaving a smudgy …


Using CyanogenMod on the Samsung Galaxy S4

I've been using CyanogenMod pretty much since day one after I got my Samsung Galaxy S4 which was my first Android phone. After the best phone I ever owned, a Nokia N900 got to the point where battery life was about 8 hours I felt that I needed to upgrade …


What exactly is encrypted with Android full disk encryption?

I've been running CyanogenMod on my Samsung Galaxy S4 since pretty much the day I bought it. As far as I can tell it's pretty close to the stock Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with a minimum of bloat and a few Google things (like the Play Store) removed1 …

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