[xvector]

> There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.

Of course there's a security risk. The security model of both the Macs and the iPhones have significantly improved. The hardware security models make this a difficult engineering task - and a dangerous one.

[jdsully]

The modern day equivalent would be walking you through backing up to iCloud and restoring from iCloud. It’s not a security risk unless iCloud is one already.