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1Password Simplifies Access With New Unlock Setting
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If you would read more carefully you would know that this is a feature for desktop (Windows/macOS) as it clearly says here in the article:
Or in 1Password's official announcement:
Desktop devices have no Face ID and many computers, especially older ones, don't even have TouchID/Fingerprint reader.
This is absolutely a desirable feature and i applaud 1Password for it. I wish Apple would offer that for their baked-in solution as well since you have to enter the password (or put your finger on that reader in my case) every single time you want to use it, even if you just unlocked it. Even when the app is still open and it loses focus because you go to another app, when you go back it is locked again. Super annoying. Could at least at a time setting, like 5 minutes.
A few years ago, when I moved from Safari to Firefox on my laptop, I had to move away from Keychain.
I picked Bitwarden, and have been happy with it since. I'm still using the free version. I did consider paying to incorporate 2FA codes, but then decided that the whole point of 2FA was the "2" 😁. So I keep 2FA in Authy on my phone.
Apple's new Passwords entry-point into Keychain now supports Firefox. I gave it a go, but having to enter a pin each time I start Firefox, and then authenticate (touch-ID) for every password, got irritating. I like Bitwarden's method of (optionally, I think) requiring a password each time Firefox is started and then needing no further authentication.
I do have some passwords in Bitwarden locked - this means I need to enter the Bitwarden master password each time I want to use that user/password, and I also close Firefox each time I leave my laptop unattended. This also wipes all my cookies apart from whitelisted ones (one of the Firefox features that stops me moving back to Safari).
I picked Bitwarden, and have been happy with it since. I'm still using the free version. I did consider paying to incorporate 2FA codes, but then decided that the whole point of 2FA was the "2" 😁. So I keep 2FA in Authy on my phone.
Apple's new Passwords entry-point into Keychain now supports Firefox. I gave it a go, but having to enter a pin each time I start Firefox, and then authenticate (touch-ID) for every password, got irritating. I like Bitwarden's method of (optionally, I think) requiring a password each time Firefox is started and then needing no further authentication.
I do have some passwords in Bitwarden locked - this means I need to enter the Bitwarden master password each time I want to use that user/password, and I also close Firefox each time I leave my laptop unattended. This also wipes all my cookies apart from whitelisted ones (one of the Firefox features that stops me moving back to Safari).
And if you looked more carefully at the iOS app you'd see it's also now a feature there as well, as you can clearly see here in this screenshot:
Agree it's possibly a safe feature to use in many situations on a Mac, but I still maintain it's a dicey thing to enable on an iPhone, where your entire database could be exposed if someone got hold of your PIN or snatched your phone while it was unlocked.
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You can create Masked emails with your domain, so why couldn't you import the existing emails as masked? If anything, they would probably be imported as an alias?
That is a nonsensical concern compared to the concern of trusting a third party app with your passwords.
I worry a bit about Fastmail lock-in because I'm handing out masked email addresses like ksksiw@fastmail.com to various sites. If those sites consider the email address to be my user id of an account and something that cannot be changed, then I would lose that account if I give up Fastmail.
But, I just love Fastmail and don't imagine I would ever give it up.
Yes - until the day someone watches your finger entering your 4-6 digit PIN into your iOS device. And that's it - full access to all of your Apple Passwords. Such a big security issue for me that I cannot stand stock Apple Passwords app.
Is still cannot believe... Access to devices via PIN/Password should still be possible all the time - and so you can also access the Passwords!
That's just a massive misunderstanding of how any of it works. Someone needs to see you enter your code, in public, AND manage to steal your device, AND manage to use it before you can lock it from any other device.
This is easily mitigate by not being stupid enough to enter your passcode in public.
I think the situation described was the person’s device became unusable since it would not stop prompting for the iCloud login.
I've used Clipperz free password manager ("Keep It To Yourself" is their slogan) since 2008. They've offered PIN for local machines for about 10 years now.
I'm still loving 1Password.
The fact that it seamlessly syncs across all my devices, Apple, Windows, phones, computers, etc., is huge.
One small fee covers the cost for my entire family to use it.
I would've switched from 1Password entirely, but love having credit cards, ID numbers, account numbers, etc., all in one app.
This happened to my daughter. She would get a pop-up “please put in your Apple ID password” all the time, and couldn’t use the phone at all because of it (including making calls). Apple said it would take about a week to get her identity confirmed. Then a week passed, and they were still working on it. I paid my car payment just because we didn’t know how long this would take. It was a pain.
The fact that someone completely unknown to you could do something to disable your Apple functionality for a full two weeks makes Apple's Password application a complete non-starter for me.
Anyone who chooses to use Apple's solution should probably do an experiment. Create a test user with its own iCloud account. Then try to trigger the lockout by entering random bad passwords. You could then test the full impact of problem on your own situation, given the devices you're using. The test user would probably have to be discarded after that since there would be no way to convince Apple over the phone that you are a person named "Test User".
There was also an issue where a Dad sent photos of his son to a doctor burning the pandemic and his Google account got locked. He was cleared, but his Google account is locked for good.
...and to confirm, you don't use any Windows devices?
I have wanted to try Apple's password, but, I have a Windows computer, too. Wasn't sure Apple passwords would be an option on Windows.