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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Apple doesn’t take security serious? WHAT? Didn’t apple withhold info to the fbi on how to hack in to the iPhone? Google would have easily broke down and would have giv n the Chinese and the fbi your info.
2 factor authentication along with iCloud Keychain if you are an all apple environment.
If you use windows, you are already hacked!
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If one is using Apple’s built-in password manager, KeyChain, on an iPhone, one’s passwords are protected by only the phone’s passcode that opens the phone’s screen. A bad actor looking over the shoulder of an iPhone user in a restaurant, bar, airport, and so on can observe the user entering their phone’s passcode, which opens the phone’s screen and KeyChain passwords. After a bad actor knows the phone’s passcode, they could take the phone by theft or robbery and now they have access to all the iPhone owner’s passwords stored in KeyChain. Google’s Android phones have a similar risk.
Here is a newspaper story about this kind of risk on phones and the technology limits on basic phone security:
A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life - WSJ
Reputable pay password managers offer stronger protection than the free built-in Apple and Google password systems at least on mobile devices. Whether one wants extra protection for their passwords is a personal decision.