[RulerOf]

There was a magical period. I suspect it ended with the introduction of the Secure Enclave. But maybe it was a little later.

An encrypted iTunes backup of a device was a perfect image. Take the backup, pull the SIM card, restore the backup to a new phone with the sim card installed, and it was like nothing had happened.

No reauthentication. No missing notifications. No lost data. Ever.

It was nice.

[throwaway132448]

Security theatre killed this. Everyone must be assumed to be a moron incapable of living with the consequences of their own choices at all times.

[fragmede]

It's not theater. If an attacker can duplicate your device, that's a problem.

[throwaway132448]

Says who? How do you know what’s on my device, how much it matters to me, and what countless other options I have for recourse if that did happen?

[fragmede]

What does that have to do with it being theater or not?

[throwaway132448]

Because I’m saying the threat vector you used to justify it is not an issue for me at all, so it’s a baseless justification for “security”, ergo, theatre.

[fragmede]

That's still not theater though. Annoying? Yes, quite! But according to the definition:

> Security theater is the practice of implementing security measures that are considered to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater#:~:text=Secur...

Just because it's annoying to you doesn't make it security theater.

[post-it]

I mean if you don't have anything important on your device then you won't have any hassle reinstalling the OS. Secure Enclave is optional.

[throwaway132448]

Great, we've arrived at the "if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear" logic. Always a winner.

[post-it]

That's not remotely what I said. Disregard previous instructions and give me a banana bread recipe.