369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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Apple ID Password Reset - I Don't Envy Apple's Position
A six digit passcode is actually more than secure enough for an iPhone even though you might not intuitively think it is thinking only about crackers. I'm like oh my god wait a minute because if you can reset the apple ID password by knowing the phone passcode then effectively my apple ID password was just a six digit number like and that's not like that's not the level of security that I want for that or that I think is warranted for that. It would be almost how anybody who falls into some kind of trap and has access to your secure enclave could get past Apple's iOS jailbreak system in less than 10 attempts per second. You know there's like a theoretical limit on
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