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How does the secret jump from the PC to their phone? How do they know each other? ...does the answer involve going all-in on Apple forever?
by noAnswer 10mo ago
How does the secret jump from the PC to their phone? How do they know each other? ...does the answer involve going all-in on Apple forever?
- eddyg 10mo agoiCloud Keychain (or whatever the Google equivalent is). And as I said, it's a fantastic solution for the vast majority of the population (which, coincidentally, are also not Hacker News readers).
- noAnswer 10mo agoCan you keep access if they decide to shut you down? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350245 They closed my PayPal account for TOS violation after donating to The OpenBSD Foundation. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
- timmyc123 10mo agoYour credential manager provides this sync and backup capability. There are dozens of credential managers available that work on all platforms. You don't have to use the default one on any given platform. Bitwarden is my personal choice.
- spencerflem 10mo agoI still don’t like that I can’t use them on a computer that I can’t download bitwarden on. Library computer, etc. Passwords I can see myself and make the informed decision to use temporarily somewhere else.
- Too 10mo agoWhen was the last time you used a library computer, let alone logged onto a private service with it? This was a bad idea even 20 years ago. In today’s security climate, aw hell no.
- spencerflem 10mo agoOr my sisters laptop. & Fairly recently actually, to print something. Most accounts I don’t care that much about & two factor should be enough to save me I hope.