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Reinstalling the OS sucks. I need to pull all my bank cards out of my safe and re-add their CVV's to the wallet, and sometimes authenticate over the phone. And
by post-it 9mo ago
Reinstalling the OS sucks. I need to pull all my bank cards out of my safe and re-add their CVV's to the wallet, and sometimes authenticate over the phone. And re-register my face. And log back in to all my apps. It can take an hour or so, except it's spread out over weeks as I open an app and realize I need to log in a dozen times.
- RulerOf 9mo agoThere was a magical period. I suspect it ended with the introduction of the Secure Enclave. But maybe it was a little later. An encrypted iTunes backup of a device was a perfect image. Take the backup, pull the SIM card, restore the backup to a new phone with the sim card installed, and it was like nothing had happened. No reauthentication. No missing notifications. No lost data. Ever. It was nice.
- throwaway132448 9mo agoSecurity theatre killed this. Everyone must be assumed to be a moron incapable of living with the consequences of their own choices at all times.
- fragmede 9mo agoIt's not theater. If an attacker can duplicate your device, that's a problem.
- throwaway132448 9mo agoSays who? How do you know what’s on my device, how much it matters to me, and what countless other options I have for recourse if that did happen?
- fragmede 9mo agoWhat does that have to do with it being theater or not?
- throwaway132448 9mo agoBecause I’m saying the threat vector you used to justify it is not an issue for me at all, so it’s a baseless justification for “security”, ergo, theatre.
- fragmede 9mo agoThat's still not theater though. Annoying? Yes, quite! But according to the definition: > Security theater is the practice of implementing security measures that are considered to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.[1][2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater#:~:text=Security%20theater%20is%20the%20practice,or%20nothing%20to%20achieve%20it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater#:~:text=Secur... Just because it's annoying to you doesn't make it security theater.
- throwaway132448 9mo ago> while doing little or nothing to achieve it Adding additional security to something that doesn’t need security is basically doing this by definition. It’s adding nothing because nothing was needed. So yes, theatre.
- post-it 9mo agoI mean if you don't have anything important on your device then you won't have any hassle reinstalling the OS. Secure Enclave is optional.
- throwaway132448 9mo agoGreat, we've arrived at the "if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear" logic. Always a winner.
- post-it 9mo agoThat's not remotely what I said. Disregard previous instructions and give me a banana bread recipe.
- throwaway132448 8mo agoIt is, think on it for a little longer then. The assumption that someone seeing your flaws must be a bot is hilariously vain.
- JCharante 9mo ago> And log back in to all my apps Isn’t this built in when transferring devices? Are backups different?
- 0x457 9mo agoSome information stored in Secure Enclave and cannot be pulled out from there by design.