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| | rmondello.com
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| | Important Note: Although I work at Apple and am deeply involved in the creation of its new Passwords app, in this post I am speaking only for myself and not for Apple. There is no "news" in this post, or any kind of "inside scoop". My intention is to help the kind of person who [...]
| | lapcatsoftware.com
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| | [AI summary] The author discovers that iCloud Keychain silently uploaded and permanently stored website passwords on Apple servers even after being disabled on devices, highlighting a lack of control over keychain data removal.
| | risley.net
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| | [AI summary] The author provides a critical analysis of password manager security, specifically comparing the bloated, enterprise-focused 1Password with the privacy-centric, open-source Standard Notes, while offering technical advice on encryption, biometric risks, and trusted platform modules.
| | labanskoller.se
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| Last week my favorite IT security podcast Bli säker (Become Secure in English) published the episode The Epochalypse and the QR Code (only in Swedish) where they explained the techonology behind mobile authenticator apps. I felt I needed to refresh my TOTP algorithm support investigation from 2019 before the recording of the next episode of the Bli säker podcast. :) So this is an update to the blog post I published in July 2019 called Many Common Mobile Authenticator Apps Accept QR Codes for Modes They D...