Since we use passwords to protect our phones, and fingerprint/face scanners are just an option, our phones technically know us by name before they know us by face or hand.
I was trying to unlock my phone with wet hands and it kept failing. It made me realize that biometric data is just a luxury backup feature. At its core, the device only truly trusts the secret textual phrase we assigned to it.
Posted Aug 31, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC
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