You lock it Android you with a pattern on the keyboard? We often mention passwords, highlighting the need to use long passwords that contain unusual characters. Passwords like “12345” or “password” are easily predictable and therefore do not protect you.
However, it turns out that the security feature of Android that does not use passwords but the "drawing" of a shape on the keys of the device is just as predictable as the common passwords.
Η Marte Løge, μια απόφοιτη του τμήματος Science and Technology του Νορβηγικού Πανεπιστημίου, ανέλυσε 4.000 σχέδια της συγκεκριμένης κλειδαριάς του Android και ανακάλυψε ότι το 77% από αυτά ήταν προβλέψιμα, αφού ξεκινούσαν από μία από τις τέσσερις γωνίες.
As Ars Technica says, the researcher also found that 44% of participants started their plans from the upper left corner. Loge presented her findings in detail at the PasswordsCon conference held in Las Vegas.
As it emerged from study της ερευνήτριας τα εικονικά μοτίβα που δημιουργούσαν οι συμμετέχοντες και κατ extension most people are four nodes. Patterns with eight knots were less popular.
Interestingly, about 10% of motifs using nodes connect letters like M or N, and usually represent another important or a child's user.
Loge, though her research was the first to deal with this Android lock, has proven that the best practice for locking is not to start from a corner.
For better results you can use intersections and as many nodes as possible.