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Everyone’s here focusing on usability aspects, but in fact this is a great security feature more than anything[1]. Security research has been calling for somet
by deno 10y ago
Everyone’s here focusing on usability aspects, but in fact this is a great security feature more than anything[1].
Security research has been calling for something like this for a long time. Any “enterprise” laptop brand should have been shipping this five years ago.
[1] Assuming they don’t let apps just display anything there.
- jpalomaki 10y agoThis is actually the thing that I've been kind of missing from computers now that they come with the secure enclave, TPM and other solutions for securely storing encryption keys. It would be pretty great if there was a way for the security chip to communicate directly with user to for example show a clear text version of the bank transaction I'm about to sign with my secret key.
- deno 10y agoThere’s really no reason to have a separate plain text confirmation here, just an indication that what you’re seeing on screen is not a phishing attempt by a rouge app[1]. A single ‘secure mode’ LED would suffice really. How come no one can even ‘innovate’ this little, other than Apple? [1] Obviously though this is better, because it can be completely driven by the secure path, as you say. Also the axed Escape key is a textbook tactic to cause fake controversy to get free marketing.