Are you using Windows 10 Mobile? Your photos can be accessible even if your mobile is locked

The continuous improvement in the photographic section of smartphones today and the large storage capacity that the devices have, have fact that a good part of the snapshots that we take in our day to day become recorded in the micro SD or in the internal memory of our phone.

That summer trip, family photos of a celebration or other more intimate ones (there are users for everything), the content in images is very broad, hence the value of a phone is measured for the content it stores rather than for the monetary value.Factors that test the effectiveness of operating systems and applications to control the privacy of our data.

However, this security is often compromised more often than desired. You don't have to go far to flip through the newspapers to see examples of photos stolen from famous and anonymous people. Operating systems, all or most of them at least, have gaps and Windows 10 in its mobile version was not going to be any different.

And it seems that a bug has been found that allows that, even if we have the mobile terminal blocked, the photos that we have stored in the gallery continue to be visiblefor prying eyes. A bug that is present in the latest build of the Windows 10 Mobile Insider Program.

And if you think that it is very difficult to gain access, the user who discovered the flaw says no, that access to this security breach is anything but complicated . These are the steps to follow and below you have the video that shows the bug:

• We must take a picture with the terminal blocked thanks to the access of the camera
• We access the thumbnail of the photograph taken and open it.
• We delete it.
• Click on the Back button.
• On the Camera screen, press the thumbnail with the old preview and we will see the black screen.
• We go back and repeat the process.
• At this point and after a few moments, the black screen shows another photo from the gallery so that there is already access to the rest of the stored images.

Some users even claim that they were able to reproduce this bug in a public build, outside of the Insider Program. A ruling that, on the other hand, draws attention due to its simplicity to access it.

It is to be hoped that Microsoft will take note of this bug and remedy it in successive compilations to prevent our data, at least in as far as photographs are concerned, they can fall into the hands of anyone.

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