An old but still fresh news about smartphone security. This time is on Android with some kind help from Google.

Sounding more like an episode of Law and Order, a pimp by the name of Dante Dears was allegedly using a Samsung branded Android phone for "telephone pimping". The FBI wanted to get whatever information was stored in the handset to use against Dears and the pimp finally turned over the phone to them. But there was a problem would baffle FBI. It seems that Dears uses a pattern to unlock his Android handset, but you wouldn't expect that a pimp could foil the mighty FBI with such a crude locking method on a 3X3 grid.

The world famous FBI lab ran into a snag. They could not figure out the pattern needed to unlock the phone. Twenty combinations were tried and twenty times the FBI was shot down until the infamous password prompt showed up on the screen.

Next stop was getting a subpoena to Google to get access to Dears’ Google account ...