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Not a great solution, but if iOS itself is asking for your password pressing the home button when the dialog is up will be a nop instead of returning you to the

Not a great solution, but if iOS itself is asking for your password pressing the home button when the dialog is up will be a nop instead of returning you to the home screen.

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wonderous 9y ago
Please clarify if “nop” is a typo, slang, etc.
- quesera 9y ago
  Assembly language instruction mnemonic for "no operation", traditionally capitalized. See also NOOP, NOPR, etc.
- deleted 9y ago
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- samschooler 9y ago
  I think he was meaning nop in the sense of "no operation." Its a term originating from an assembly language instruction meaning "do nothing." Basically, if you press the home button; nothing happens.
- tomc1985 9y ago
  Why can't people google things anymore?
  - Finnucane 9y ago
    What;s the National Organic Program got to do with it?
tolien 9y ago
Yeah, that was the suggestion I saw people make when Marco Arment mentioned [1] that the popup was bad too. As you say, it’s not great but it seems better than nixing the popup entirely. 1: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/841359803192561665 https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/841359803192561665
- rorosaurus 9y ago
  If I remember correctly, people at the time were suggesting Apple simply had their own, private version of the popup which indicated it's authenticity via colors or a badge. I honestly feel like that might have been good enough, especially if you change the other, public popup dialogs to warn not to enter password information.
  - tolien 9y ago
    I guess the corollary to that is Dropbox faking the macOS credential popup [1] - anything you can see can be cloned. If they'd just fixed it so it didn't appear so damned often and without any apparent cause (I get that it was probably triggered by some background process trying to sync or something - those should really have triggered a "Open Settings to confirm your Apple ID" sort of message, rather than a direct request for credentials), that might have been enough. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/51wqhd/dropbox_fakes_the_osx_login_dialog_to_cache_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/51wqhd/dropbox_fak...
tomc1985 9y ago
Man I effing hate this feature. Makes one feel like they're in a third world country -- "IDENTIFICATION PLEASE" all the damn time

Not a great solution, but if iOS itself is asking for your password pressing the home button when the dialog is up will be a nop instead of returning you to the home screen.

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wonderous 9y ago

Please clarify if “nop” is a typo, slang, etc.

quesera 9y ago
Assembly language instruction mnemonic for "no operation", traditionally capitalized. See also NOOP, NOPR, etc.
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samschooler 9y ago
I think he was meaning nop in the sense of "no operation." Its a term originating from an assembly language instruction meaning "do nothing." Basically, if you press the home button; nothing happens.
tomc1985 9y ago
Why can't people google things anymore?
- Finnucane 9y ago
  What;s the National Organic Program got to do with it?

tolien 9y ago

Yeah, that was the suggestion I saw people make when Marco Arment mentioned [1] that the popup was bad too. As you say, it’s not great but it seems better than nixing the popup entirely. 1: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/841359803192561665 https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/841359803192561665

rorosaurus 9y ago
If I remember correctly, people at the time were suggesting Apple simply had their own, private version of the popup which indicated it's authenticity via colors or a badge. I honestly feel like that might have been good enough, especially if you change the other, public popup dialogs to warn not to enter password information.
- tolien 9y ago
  I guess the corollary to that is Dropbox faking the macOS credential popup [1] - anything you can see can be cloned. If they'd just fixed it so it didn't appear so damned often and without any apparent cause (I get that it was probably triggered by some background process trying to sync or something - those should really have triggered a "Open Settings to confirm your Apple ID" sort of message, rather than a direct request for credentials), that might have been enough. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/51wqhd/dropbox_fakes_the_osx_login_dialog_to_cache_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/51wqhd/dropbox_fak...

tomc1985 9y ago

Man I effing hate this feature. Makes one feel like they're in a third world country -- "IDENTIFICATION PLEASE" all the damn time