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Against the 5$ vulnerability, if you are that important, go for a gun permit and train on pigs so in a real life situation you wouldn't freeze.

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No, random people should not try to get into gun battles to protect their phone. If you're that worried about the rare chance of being forced to unlock your phone by criminals you can limit which financial apps you have on the phone.

Despite some popular fantasies, buying a handgun and shooting some targets (or live pigs?!?!) does not turn one into an action hero. That kind of escalation is likely to get the phone owner or another innocent person killed. It's a stupid risk, especially given that there are much better ways to protect your phone data.

What if the pigs decide to apply that same logic?

Not cops, no metaphors here. Some security companies make the trainee shoot a pig in the head. Lots of people, no matter the training, just can't kill a living being.

I wasn't going the police = pigs angle, I was trying to be more absurdist regarding the potential uprising of animal-kind, particularly those that may have been killed, not for food or self defense, but for 'practice shooting of a living thing'.

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