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> someone steals your laptop For me, they would have to steal it while I'm actively using it. When I go away from my desk, I enable the screensaver which A) re
by extra88 8y ago
> someone steals your laptop
For me, they would have to steal it while I'm actively using it. When I go away from my desk, I enable the screensaver which A) requires my Mac login password to unlock and B) locks 1Password, requiring the master password to unlock.
In 1Password 6, the Prefrences > Security settings include Auto-lock: on sleep, when screen saver is activated, when main window is closed, when fast user switching, when computer is idle for X minutes. I use all but "when main window is closed." It's much less of a nuisance since I started using Touch ID to unlock 1Password.
I haven't looked into them in a while but there is 3rd party software than can automatically enable a system's screen saver when a particular Bluetooth device is out of range (e.g. a smartphone, a smartwatch, etc.) which would help even more.
- Ajedi32 8y agoThe problem is that with this attack it doesn't matter if 1Password is locked or not, the attacker can just extract your master password from memory. The computer itself being locked is a bigger obstacle.