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I wonder why they don't add a little led to their laptops that would indicate that it really is the system asking for your password. Kind of like the camera led

I wonder why they don't add a little led to their laptops that would indicate that it really is the system asking for your password. Kind of like the camera led.

nmgycombinator 1y ago
That's an interesting idea. I do think it would be nice to have some way of knowing "is this prompt coming from the operating system or some third-party app?". However, I don't think it would have helped in the case of my vulnerability, because it abused a legitimate OS prompt.
kalleboo 1y ago
When they had the touchbar on the MacBook Pros, they would put the authentication in there since that was something only the OS could take full control over.
- nmgycombinator 1y ago
  That's honestly a pretty smart move.
  - kalleboo 1y ago
    Yeah it's a shame it's just such an overengineered/expensive thing.
- saagarjha 1y ago
  You can draw arbitrary content into it though?