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Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC

Posted by timothy on from the now-attach-it-to-your-gun dept.

coop0030 (263345) writes "Becky Stern at Adafruit has created a guide on how to create an open source NFC ring or other wearable to mod and unlock your Android phone. From the tutorial: 'Unlock your phone by just picking it up! No more pesky password or gesture PIN, just scan an NFC tag! This guide covers creating an NFC ring, putting an NFC tag in your nail polish, modding your Android installation to read tags from the lockscreen, and creating an automation toolchain to unlock the phone when the desired tag is scanned.' There is also a video that demonstrates how it works."

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  1. Unlocking a phone.... by Glasswire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Boy, and I'd always heard it was a lot harder than that to get an unlocked phone

  2. Do not want by PvtVoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know about anyone else, but when I pick up my phone, I want it to work. Every time. This kind of interlock just adds another point of failure. Suppose a bunch of thugs (you know who I mean) are in my house, and I need to call the police?

    If these things are ever sold anywhere, by anyone, it will be the first step in a slippery slope by which the phone grabbers will gut the First Amendment right to call anybody I want, any time. How long before the FCC demands a remote kill switch?

    1. Re:Do not want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Suppose a bunch of thugs (you know who I mean) are in my house, and I need to call the police?

      Why would you want to call more police to your house?

  3. Re:Given that my wife just found her wedding ring. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're wife didn't go back to her lover's place for six months to get it off the night stand?

    Sad that their relationship seems to be breaking down.

  4. Re:Wallet by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can also just put an NFC sticker in your wallet.

    She: "Maybe we could go out for drinks on Saturday"
    He: "Let me check my schedule" - pulls out phone and waves it around near his butt - "Yeah, I'm free"
    She (disgusted): "You pig! I'll never go out with you!"

    Wallet may not be the best place for that tag, although it probably beats placing it in your belt buckle.

    --
    When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
  5. Re:jewelry lost too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe asking for jewelry has been a trade standard among muggers for some time already even.