When you pin a screen on Android, it keeps the screen open on top of everything else on your phone and deactivates the phone's buttons. You can even activate a setting to require the unlock pattern to unpin. This is handy to limit access to other data and apps on your phone if you borrow it to someone.
Category: Android
Spectre/Meltdown
Spectre and Meltdown are two massive security vulnerabilities found in smartphone chips. If you have any devices with a processor, you're likely affected by these vulnerabilities. Desktops, laptops, cloud computers, smartphones and some internet of things devices are all affected. The vulnerability makes use of a feature of modern processors, called speculative execution. Security experts do… Continue reading Spectre/Meltdown