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by arkoinad
74 days ago
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Author of the blogpost here:
Firstly didnt expect anyone would read my blog post (Atleast not this soon) let alone someone posting a link on hackernews.
Yeah I realized while i was writing that if somehow that (my assumption about master key) did happen then it would be bad press and completely destroy Apples reputation for a privacy first. At the same time for an usecase like mine where i want my work isolated from personal it is weird that without proper way to get the data back they would allow this to happen. I mean if i really didnt remember my password then my keychain data would have been gone without which lot of work related info would have been hard to recover. |
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It is reasonable to expect that having a password it is used to protect the data. A passwordless account does not protect or encrypt data.
Windows by comparison does the same for credential storage. If you forget account password and go your way to reset password, you will lose access to existing encrypted credential store (a keychain).