Between this and the Mac root login, looks like Apple has got 'an offer they can't refuse' from Uncle Sam, and are establishing plausible deniability by intentionally introducing security failures.
But they patched the Mac root login within 48 hours of it becoming “a story”? I don’t buy the conspiracy.
More likely, Apple wants to ease user adoption.
Did you buy an iPhone X? It was awesome to setup. There was this nifty feature to use NFC/the cameras on my new phone to authenticate myself, and it was a breeze. Huge fan of this type of improvement and convenience.
You know what I’m not a fan of? My iPhone being a gateway to hijack the rest of my digital life. It’s a key to my little kingdom that didn’t exist before, and my only protection is (figuratively speaking) locking my phone to me like the Nuclear Football, and continuing to use a 20+ character passphrase with enough entropy I can’t be brute forced.
I meant that they are 'introducing' security fails so that once there'll be indications they're giving data to Uncle Sam they can claim they were hax'd.
But I'm not really serious with this 'conspiracy theory', it's just some food for thought/shitpostin'.
More likely, Apple wants to ease user adoption.
Did you buy an iPhone X? It was awesome to setup. There was this nifty feature to use NFC/the cameras on my new phone to authenticate myself, and it was a breeze. Huge fan of this type of improvement and convenience.
You know what I’m not a fan of? My iPhone being a gateway to hijack the rest of my digital life. It’s a key to my little kingdom that didn’t exist before, and my only protection is (figuratively speaking) locking my phone to me like the Nuclear Football, and continuing to use a 20+ character passphrase with enough entropy I can’t be brute forced.