{"id":176589,"date":"2016-08-21T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176589"},"modified":"2016-08-21T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T07:03:24","slug":"unlock-chrome-os-with-a-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/176589-unlock-chrome-os-with-a-pin.html","title":{"rendered":"Unlock Chrome OS with a PIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- o-subtle_divider\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1\">\n<p>Google has launched an experimental feature for Chrome OS which allows users to unlock their system using a PIN.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is part of a\u00a0Chrome OS developer update, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+FrancoisBeaufort\/posts\/LzuhTLNKRUY\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>detailed by a Google employee<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To access the feature, users must:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enable the flag <i>chrome:\/\/flags\/#quick-unlock-pin<\/i>, restart Chrome, and go to Chrome Material Design settings page for now to set up your Lock Screen PIN in the new &#8220;Screen Lock&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s done, lock your screen with &#x1f50d; + L and enjoy the new unlock experience!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-notMobileReferredByFbTw\">\n<div class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- mt-n35 mt-n25@m mt-n15@s\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"full-width@tp- grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1 no-review\">\n<p>&#8220;Note that Quick Unlock settings will also land in the regular Chrome settings page soon,&#8221; stated the post.<\/p>\n<p>The source code is available here:\u00a0<strong><a class=\"ot-anchor aaTEdf\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/codereview.chromium.org\/2208473007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/codereview.chromium.org\/2208473007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width@tp- grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/176505-nsa-cybersecurity-hack-this-is-what-happened.html\">NSA cybersecurity hack \u2013 this is what happened<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/174850-this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-steal-your-adsl-username-and-password.html\">This is how easy it is to steal your ADSL username and password<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched an experimental feature for Chrome OS which allows users to unlock their system using a PIN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[36,34047,167],"class_list":["post-176589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-active","tag-chrome-os","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176591,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176589\/revisions\/176591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}