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by eyelidlessness 1841 days ago
Well that thread has an unfortunate answer to my biggest question at the end of the article: what about iCloud Keychain?

>> @colmmacc: Safari seems conspicuously absent from the list, but it has more users than Firefox or Edge. Is that deliberate? superficially it has the chrome problem solved and T1/T2 integration for the password manager across iOS and OS X.[1]

> @taviso: Well, it's deliberate because I don't know how it works, not because I think there's something wrong with it! It sounds reasonable from the docs, but I haven't looked at the implementation.[2]

As I said in thread, that’s a weird response given the opening paragraph of the article:

> I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand the attack surface of popular password managers. I think I’ve spent more time analyzing them than practically anybody else, and I think that qualifies me to have an opinion!

I mean, I think Tavis is qualified to have an opinion regardless. But just blanket ignoring a competitor’s solution that addresses all of the problems in the article, while claiming to have more familiarity with the space than practically anyone else... that doesn’t sit well with me.

1: https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1401336209746673666?s=21

2: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1401373666328203264?s=21