Face ID is not less secure than Touch ID. Your notion that Face ID is easier to get (for the average person who isn’t an identical twin with the exact same facial proportions measured) than Touch ID is false.
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I liked Keychain Access for allowing custom user/pass entries and hope I don’t lose it with this new app.
They are both insecure as they are not secrets. They are convenient biometric proxies for secrets.
See my post above.
I never said that FaceID is less secure than TouchID, or the other way around.
I never even mentioned TouchID.
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It takes strength and some balls to whack someone over the head. It’s dangerous. And it draws attention. And the victim is incapacitated, unmoveable, and their eyes are closed. And the prison sentences tend to be much higher when violence is involved.
A date-rape drug can be easily slipped into a drink by anyone, the victim can be moved out of sight without anyone paying attention, and they keep their eyes open so using FaceID is easy.
Which is why putting FaceID on financial apps on a phone that people carry in their pockets is such a horrible idea.
Of course. The old XKCD comes in here
As for the FaceID on financial apps, yes that. I am just removing that now.
It's still in macOS 15.1 but looks a little outdated.
By the way... There is also still the DVD Player and I wonder if it is able to play BDs too? They even updated it from Intel to Apple Silicon, what didn't exist officially in 2019.
I didn't even realize macOS HAD a DVD player app.
It's hidden here now. Can't also remember when I saw it the last time in the standard Application folder, but I remember it had been there.
I have an external BD drive, that I used when DVDs were still needed to install Windows on Mac with BootCamp. But no BD movie to try it.
But I remember there was a Region Code for DVDs in the player and you could only change it a few times. If I am not confusing it with another player for Windows.
Please show me where I said I ONLY use Apple products. I'll wait. Moving on from the silly comments, As many people who've been using Apple for decades, leaving the walled garden is very difficult. Plus, Apple has a reputation for not playing nice with other platforms. So, some people might have a iPhone but work on Windows at work. If they lose their phone or are restricted from using their phone while at work, then you've just created a significant pain point and possible security friction as some people may start to write down passwords.
There is no walled garden. And switching platforms isn’t difficult either. Naturally comes with compromises as it isn’t the same and doesn’t have the same functionality. And no any decent company provides password management software of an enterprise grade which Apple Passwords most definitely is not. That is where the likes of 1Password come into play. A good acceptable use policy would explicitly forbid storing/mixing corporate passwords with personal software tools.
Beyond the need for session management on mobile devices in a secure M365 environment nope. Also a rather limited version compared to something like 1Password.
Great to have a dedicated app. But how on earth do you forget to add the secure notes!?
Now I still have to open the keychain with an extra dialog to access those. Sometimes I question what these guys are doing .....
Now I still have to open the keychain with an extra dialog to access those. Sometimes I question what these guys are doing .....