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Android 5 lock-screens can be bypassed by typing in a reeeeally long password. In 2015

misterinformed
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Re: And nobody considered...

It took a lot more than 32 characters - in the video, copy & paste are used to repeatedly double the password length. It starts with 10 characters, then gets doubled 10 times in the dialler, (an eleventh attempt is abandoned - it isn't copied), which makes 10240 characters. Then this is pasted four times into the password entry field, so the total is 40960 characters. I expect someone even more pedantic than me will correct me if I've miscounted.

Obviously it's stupid to allow entry of so many characters, so I'll join you on the Guinness.

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