As with all new phones there invariably tends to be some unforseen “features”. Well, today news emerged that Droid too was susceptible to just such a feature. It turns out that there is a a rather simple way to bypass the screen lock on these phones by hitting the “back button”.

From Techcrunch:

Exploiting the bug is fairly simple: while receiving an incoming call on a Droid that has its Lock screen activated, you can simply hit the dedicated ‘Back’ button to bypass the lock and jump to the homescreen. This, of course, gives access to the owner’s Email account, cookied web pages, phone directory, and everything else stored on the phone. You can take a tiny bit of solace in the fact that the thief would have to know your phone number or wait for someone to call your phone to exploit the bug, but that’s not particularly reassuring.

Oops. But, there’s an app for that. Nothing really new here other than to point out that iPhone had it first.

Heh.

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