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In any case, Apple can't be blamed here. Apple does not know what really happened.
Here is a great example of why Apple takes the position they do:
Sim card takeovers. Remember when most of tech thought tying accounts to phone numbers was a good idea?
Remember the people saying that was a very bad idea?
People can get their digital lives taken, or very seriously impacted just by someone knowing a phone number!
The same social engineering and or permissive policy being advocated for in this laptop case gets used all the time to swap a user's sim card!
Once that has been done, the attacker can do password swaps and cause all sorts of grief.
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In any case, Apple can't be blamed here. Apple does not know what really happened.
Here is a great example of why Apple takes the position they do:
Sim card takeovers. Remember when most of tech thought tying accounts to phone numbers was a good idea?
Remember the people saying that was a very bad idea?
People can get their digital lives taken, or very seriously impacted just by someone knowing a phone number!
The same social engineering and or permissive policy being advocated for in this laptop case gets used all the time to swap a user's sim card!
Once that has been done, the attacker can do password swaps and cause all sorts of grief.