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I read the whole article, and I read all the HN comments (so far), but I still have no idea what the "unexpected appleID problem" is. Care to explain, for the u
by larrik 14y ago
I read the whole article, and I read all the HN comments (so far), but I still have no idea what the "unexpected appleID problem" is. Care to explain, for the unintiated like me?
- saosebastiao 14y agoWhen it prompts you to log in, it will pull up your appleID for you, but it gets it wrong. It will pull up some random other appleID...sometimes an old one you created for iTunes using a hotmail account you haven't checked since 2004, but sometimes a completely random other person's appleID. The authentication is unpredictable too...my wife has successfully signed on to her current account using an old password and successfully signed on to an old account using her new accounts password. Most of the time she can't sign on at all.
- vacri 14y agoHow is that even possible? What could be the possible rationale for keeping old passwords stored? Crazy.
- larrik 14y agoNormally it would to be prevent users from reusing their most recent N passwords, for security. I don't believe Apple does that anywhere, though.
- erichocean 14y agoI can confirm that they do.
- vacri 14y agoI suppose thinking about it, as long as they're hashed and salted, it's less of a problem... but it's still crazy that the system could fail that way.
- archivator 14y agoYou're assuming it's intentional. The first thing that comes to my mind is inconsistent state between multiple authentication servers.
- r00fus 14y agoSign on to what? iCloud? Is there a forum thread or discussion somewhere that actually describes this in more details? I've never gotten this before.
- saosebastiao 14y agohttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/4342193?start=0&tstart=0 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4342193?start=0&tst...