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by 0culus 9y ago
YubiKeys allow you to load your own private key, which turned out to be a great feature. [0] [0]: https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-...
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by 0culus 9y ago
> Now thinking about co's like Facebook ... This is partly why I am not installing Facebook or Messenger on my iPhone X. Additionally, both apps are massive time wasters for me and, last time I checked, collectively take up a nontri
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by 0culus 9y ago
Huh, that may be a good point. Both of my Macs are on Sierra and I have and iOS 9 stuck iPad.
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by 0culus 9y ago
Correct. I set a recovery key, force locked the phone (so passcode is required to get back into the phone itself), went to the iCloud security tab as described in the Apple KB article, and proceeded to reset the recovery key. I was only ask
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by 0culus 9y ago
Isn't that a caveat with a lot of 2fa systems though? If you get locked out and don't have the recovery keys you got when you set it up, you are basically permanently locked out.
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by 0culus 9y ago
I must stand corrected; I just tried setting it up. To set a new recovery key, all you need is the passcode.
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by 0culus 9y ago
Also see the reply I just made to my comment. It's no bueno.
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by 0culus 9y ago
OK, I just tried setting it up. Here's the problem. You can certainly set the recovery key, but you can easily create a new one just with the phone passcode. So if your passcode is compromised, your iCloud account is basically gone.
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by 0culus 9y ago
It's not default, but you can set a recovery key that prevents someone with your phone and passcode from being able to take over your account: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072
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by 0culus 9y ago
I am on iOS 11. Here is an Apple knowledge base article about it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072
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by 0culus 9y ago
If you look in the password and security menu in iCloud settings, there's an option to set a recovery key: "Using a recovery key increases the security of your account. When you create one, the only way to reset your password [e
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by 0culus 9y ago
Fire code where? Requirement to be networked is a new thing to me, at least as far as single family dwellings go.
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by 0culus 9y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for the link. I'm curious if Apple has done something to disable it either themselves or via a special deal with Intel. It's also interestingly timed with the announcement of the new iMac apparently having
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by 0culus 9y ago
How does this affect Apple products? I've looked around for discussion of Intel ME with regards to Apple and the silence out there is deafening. [edit] I guess I also want to know is, does Apple provide Intel firmware patches bundled w
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by 0culus 9y ago
I use it for personal projects and schoolwork, mainly to provide me with convenient to configure headless Linux boxes on my Macs without needing to depend on network connectivity to ssh into a remote box (after the initial provisioning and
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by 0culus 9y ago
Yeah, that could be very good. Especially for people who are no longer students per se...sometimes having access to an expert is the best way to avoid going down the wrong autodidactic path :) My professor is very helpful, but office hours
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by 0culus 9y ago
I don't think it's worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But this should at a minimum be an opt-in feature, and not opt-out. Better yet, it's probably not needed. I've almost never needed to interact with URLs
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by 0culus 9y ago
I'm not aware of anything like this currently, but I'll ask around. I know the professor for this class has run reading circles in prior semesters.
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by 0culus 9y ago
That's the book we're using!
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by 0culus 9y ago
Thanks, this looks like a fantastic compendium. Will be looking through it.
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Resources to get better at theoretical CS?
23 points by 0culus 9y ago|15 comments
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by 0culus 9y ago
Usable security sure is hard. My problem is I was invited to keybase back in the old days by a friend. I played with it, and soon forgot it existed. I've just been trying it out again, and it has changed a lot for the better. I feel li