{"id":32537,"date":"2013-02-21T14:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/best-argument-for-password-protecting-your-phone.html"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:47:01","slug":"best-argument-for-password-protecting-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/best-argument-for-password-protecting-your-phone.html","title":{"rendered":"Best argument for password protecting your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">So if your house is unlocked, that means it&#39;s okay for the police to search it, too?<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this is Canada, but American legal cases have danced all around this issue, too. And while you might not think you have anything to hide of a criminal nature, are you sure there&#39;s nothing that wouldn&#39;t be, at <i>least,<\/i> embarrassing on your phone? In an email? A text message? A photo?<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2867328662_c47011962e_o.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/02\/cops-can-search-mobile-phoneonly-if-its-not-password-protected\/'>Cops can search mobile phones\u2014only if they\u2019re not password-protected<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Court of Appeal for Ontario says Toronto cops acted in good faith.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/jT3UijNfKZ1' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if your house is unlocked, that means it&#39;s okay for the police to search it, too? Granted, this is Canada, but American legal cases have danced all around this issue, too. And while you might not think you have anything to hide of a criminal nature, are you sure there&#39;s nothing that wouldn&#39;t be, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/best-argument-for-password-protecting-your-phone.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best argument for password protecting your phone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/the-insecurity-of-mobile-phone-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":32537,"position":0},"title":"The (In)Security of Mobile Phone numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Sep-18 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As people use mobiles more and more for not just phone calls (wait, they do that, too?) but as their primary access to the Internet, more and more companies and sites are using your mobile number as not just your ID, but as your authenticator, too. 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