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Believe it's now possible to link your Mobile to your Laptop / Desktop, so your Windows Screen Locks automatically when you move away from your desk (proving your Mobile Phone is with you when you go).
However, even if your Mobile is no longer in close (Bluetooth) range of your Laptop / Desktop, I understand your Window Lock Password can still be used to get pass Windows Lock by someone with a reasonable degree of Tech Savvy who knows how to bi-pass it. (And also - or course - by anyone who happens to know your Windows Lock Password).
Wouldn't it therefore be better if this Security Feature had been designed so that - unless your Mobile Phone was back in Bluetooth Range of your Desktop / Laptop - then, even if someone new (or cracked) your Windows Password, they could still not access your Device?
Alternatively if Microsoft made it Optional (for any Users who wanted to use it) to adopt 2 Factor Authorisation, then those Users who so desired, could select a Setting that always enabled them to log-on to Windows 'only with' an Authentication App Token, accessed from their Mobile Phone?
I guess that maybe one or other feature available via Windows Hello may provide an alternative, but not - if like me - you're using a Laptop that's a few years old. Gather you can buy a USB Finger Print Recognition Device even without an 'Hello' compatible Laptop, but then that introduces 3rd Party Hardware to the equation and I could envisage 'issues' arising if that hardware did not play nicely with Windows.
Thanks in advance for any comments or feedback.
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However, even if your Mobile is no longer in close (Bluetooth) range of your Laptop / Desktop, I understand your Window Lock Password can still be used to get pass Windows Lock by someone with a reasonable degree of Tech Savvy who knows how to bi-pass it. (And also - or course - by anyone who happens to know your Windows Lock Password).
Wouldn't it therefore be better if this Security Feature had been designed so that - unless your Mobile Phone was back in Bluetooth Range of your Desktop / Laptop - then, even if someone new (or cracked) your Windows Password, they could still not access your Device?
Alternatively if Microsoft made it Optional (for any Users who wanted to use it) to adopt 2 Factor Authorisation, then those Users who so desired, could select a Setting that always enabled them to log-on to Windows 'only with' an Authentication App Token, accessed from their Mobile Phone?
I guess that maybe one or other feature available via Windows Hello may provide an alternative, but not - if like me - you're using a Laptop that's a few years old. Gather you can buy a USB Finger Print Recognition Device even without an 'Hello' compatible Laptop, but then that introduces 3rd Party Hardware to the equation and I could envisage 'issues' arising if that hardware did not play nicely with Windows.
Thanks in advance for any comments or feedback.
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