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I think if done right, typing that password should be more like a once a quarter exception rather than a daily occurrence. Granted - there are blockers to gett

• Retric 1y ago
  Touch ID isn’t that secure. It’s fine for personal devices, but I wouldn’t trust it alone in a government or cooperate environment. A ~1:50,000 error rate per finger added sounds fine, but lose a few laptops and have multiple valid fingerprints etc and the odds quickly look significantly worse. Or a janitor could end up trying to log into a significant number of machines etc.
• zimpenfish 1y ago
  > macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot Isn't that because the Secure Enclave (the only place which contains the Touch ID biometric data) is locked by your password? "When a user's password is set up on an Apple Silicon Mac, the password is passed through a one-way hashing algorithm that produces a key used to encrypt the Secure enclave's key."[0] [0] https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-enclave-demystified.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-encl...