Eric Jennings

@codemonkeymike @vriesk @coldclimate All said and done. Good luck with the batch you have. Sucks that they’re so hard to deal with. You’re doing great work and it’s good to see people posting about it.

@codemonkeymike @vriesk @coldclimate I’m with you that overall, the default settings for Find My should allow users to deactivate the lock remotely. Most users would benefit greatly and it would make it so much easier to transfer devices. I think they still should have an opt-in mode where you can go into a higher security mode and remote unlocks are completely disabled. I don’t think it’s pro-ewaste to make that level of security available and optional.

@0x00string @codemonkeymike @coldclimate This is an excessively rude and cruel response. The way you’re talking to people is extremely misanthropic and lacks any empathy. Honestly, dog, you’ve added nothing to this exchange except shittiness so peace out.

@codemonkeymike @coldclimate Keep in mind how proud they were of resisting government attempts to access devices and saying that they would design them so that Apple would have no ability to unlock them for governments.

@codemonkeymike @coldclimate Well. When that generation of laptops was new, that was a big feature that Apple was selling hard on. They kept trying to lock them down more and more to attempt to be as secure as possible by default and were so proud of how hard it was to defeat. I’m not saying they couldn’t do better and better consider different choices to improve the balance for different types of users. Which they have done since then. I’m just saying that back then, the discussion was all about making them as secure as they could think to make them and that’s what they optimized for. It’s not a surprise they went too far back then when that was top of mind for them.

@codemonkeymike @coldclimate Hmm… for the hardware firmware I’d still want to have to unlock it on device rather than having an attack surface/backdoor from the internet to exploit. Apple had the issue a couple years ago with thieves exploiting the remote password change to workaround the phone protections. But I get how it sucks for this use case. Like a lot of things, for 99% of users who don’t care they should default to a version that’s secure from most thieves but not totally secure from government and then let the users who really care opt in to the stronger lockdown mode.

@codemonkeymike @coldclimate Well. The use case they were trying to solve for was someone steals your laptop and tries to access it without your permission. Hard part is getting owners to unlock it before donating/selling to someone else.