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A shocking number of people login to their personal Apple IDs (and email accounts and banks and etc. etc. etc.) on their work computer. I personally do not, but lots of people do.
IT in companies using Apple devices must be an absolutely miserable position.
Speaking of iPhone Mirroring: Doesn't this effectively downgrade two-factor authentication to a single factor for flows like "tap 'yes' on your phone to login"? I've been wondering if there is a way for iOS authenticator apps to opt out of mirroring, but haven't found anything so far.
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A shocking number of people login to their personal Apple IDs (and email accounts and banks and etc. etc. etc.) on their work computer. I personally do not, but lots of people do.
I’d say generally for most people, at least anecdotally, their work laptop is their only laptop because they’re expensive and have good specs. Especially for Apple products (which is the majority of the share of hardware in this anecdote), it’s natural to want and expect the continuity between devices. Employers usually allow this or don’t explicitly forbid it, and most employees aren’t exactly security conscious or…
Don’t you need to be signed in to the same iCloud account on both your laptop and phone to use this feature? That would mean that in order to encounter this issue you already need to be using a work account on a personal device, or vice versa. Since that’t the case I fail to see how this is a large vulnerability. The article doesn’t seem to address this point (possible I just missed this).
A shocking number of people login to their personal Apple IDs (and email accounts and banks and etc. etc. etc.) on their work computer. I personally do not, but lots of people do.
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A shocking number of people login to their personal Apple IDs (and email accounts and banks and etc. etc. etc.) on their work computer. I personally do not, but lots of people do.
IT in companies using Apple devices must be an absolutely miserable position.
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IT in companies using Apple devices must be an absolutely miserable position.
Why, because there’s not as much work to do debugging installers and malware as there is with Windows?
I can't remember last time I even heard about a malware in someone else's Windows machine, let alone my Windows machine. I don't know what you mean by debugging installers.
Sounds like an outdated opinion. Just like those "lol PHP bad" regurgitations and linking outdated articles about it.
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If your employer isn't requiring you to log in with a personal account on a work device (and they're not), and your personal data doesn't have anything you'd mind your employer seeing, then why not? Because then there's no slippery slope and you're making a conscious choice. A lot of people lead really boring lives and just want the convenience of using their personal e-mail on the work device. Their employer knowing…
Don't forget you don't own your work device and could lose access to it with zero notice. It's a personal pet peeve of mine that MacOS has no way to install with a "forget everything about iCloud" option. I love it for my personal devices but on a work device you quickly notice how it's got it's little hooks all over the OS.
Don’t you need to be signed in to the same iCloud account on both your laptop and phone to use this feature? That would mean that in order to encounter this issue you already need to be using a work account on a personal device, or vice versa. Since that’t the case I fail to see how this is a large vulnerability. The article doesn’t seem to address this point (possible I just missed this).
A shocking number of people login to their personal Apple IDs (and email accounts and banks and etc. etc. etc.) on their work computer. I personally do not, but lots of people do.
The PSA should just be don't mix your personal and work devices.
Not that easy. I use my personal device for work - and if I didn't I would wish I did, when travelling...
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I sometimes see my coworkers with banking tabs open when they screen share. The level of trust is astounding.
It certainly sounds foolish at first, but what's the real risk? Is your employer really going transfer themselves your balance or snoop on your utility bills? Now if you loaded a crypto wallet on your work device, that would be another story..