iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking

Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by ballenf on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:42AM (#15442187)

Prescient of you!

Although I’m skeptical that users will really be alerted by the absence of a thing. The users I work with wouldn’t. But I would prefer it.

The inability to use the home button on the dialogues has become second nature to me out of healthy distrust/ paranoia.

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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by EGreg on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:45AM (#15442207)

I guess since writing that email, I would have preferred the option of taking a photo (and not storing it anywhere except here). You get used to system dialogs "looking like this" with the photo. If something is wrong, most humans pick it up easily. Only for blind users do you need the text.

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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by jclardy on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:11AM (#15442438)

With the hundreds of password dialogs that you get in iOS for various reasons, I think people would catch on pretty quickly to a new secure variant.

Yeah, some people wouldn't, but that isn't a reason to leave it with the terrible implementation they have now. This has annoyed me since forever on iOS.

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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by IshKebab on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:08PM (#15442928)

I mean this flaw has been known for years. How long have we been pressing ctrl-alt-delete to log in to Windows?

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