rowdyrockets

Yeah I can see that happening. I don’t have a google account to test with, but I tested with Bitwarden and that appears safe. I have Face ID enabled for the application, and if it fails to detect my face, it doesn’t allow the use of a PIN/passcode. It’s either my face or the master password.

Edit: I’m curious what the behavior is with Apple Passwords. If it lets you access with just the phone PIN then I agree that’s a pretty big misstep by Apple.

What I don’t understand and this article never mentions (which is either disingenuous or poor journalism) is how these hackers gained access to the Apple accounts.

The phone passcode/PIN and Apple account passwords are separate. If someone were to glean your PIN (as implied by the article), that does not give them access to your Apple account. It may give them access to your phone and almost everything on it, then further bad security practices may lead to them accessing the Apple account.

So these people either also got phished on top, or they had their Apple account password insecurely stored on their phone.

I’m not saying Apple couldn’t do more to help these people but having a platform to recover accounts with identity verification is also a vector of attack.

At what point is this just a failure of personal responsibility? The thief is to blame first and foremost, but Apple can’t force you to be educated on and make sound security practices.

like I get you can’t be completely honest as a business but you can sound nicer and less greedy than you actually are

“I’ll keep licking the Nintendo boot but please at least whisper sweet nothings in my ear while I do it!”

I recognize this is a “feature” but I think it should be treated like a bug, or at least let us turn it off!!

Whatever egghead came up with the “keyboard hot zone” that dynamically (and invisibly) increases the size of the keys based on what it thinks you’ll type deserves to be tarred and feathered. Problem is, it’s always fucking wrong. It happened already typing this text, the above “increases” was first typed as “increased” because it expected “d” and thus made the “d” key zone slightly larger and the “s” zone slightly smaller. I tried typing “NCASE”, like the PC case brand, the other day, and I had to try repeatedly to get the “s” key to pop. I kept hitting the “a” key because it expected “NCAA” and increased that key zone.

Just the iPhone keyboard overall is bad. Inconsistent layouts based on where you’re typing. No number row. No period/comma (unless you’re typing a website). Just why.

Same. That was 2 days ago and nothing yet. I’m skeptical they even have staff to complete these requests. Not sure how long I’m gonna wait before just pulling the trigger. I’m planning to scramble as much data as possible and change my address to somewhere in California but doubtful that will do much.