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If they buy another iPhone, how do they authenticate to the cloud account? A password that hasn’t been used in months or years? Standard credit collection agenc
by dv_dt 3y ago
If they buy another iPhone, how do they authenticate to the cloud account? A password that hasn’t been used in months or years? Standard credit collection agency data (which is stealable and has been stolen for many people already?)
- danShumway 3y agoYes, correct. Apple documents its restore process here: - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210217 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210217 - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204974 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204974 They also have account recovery processes which use metadata about you to try and verify your identity. Note, this is the system they are using today for passkeys. So this is not some kind of compromise or complexity with password vaults that passkeys eliminate, it's just the universal process of account recovery that we have today with all of its flaws, and passkeys don't add any additional protections or simplicity on top of this system.