Re: Checking security settings?
Re: Checking security settings?
- Subject: Re: Checking security settings?
- From: SevenBits <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:20:29 -0400
On Friday, September 5, 2014, Quincey Morris <
email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:15 , Britt Durbrow <
> email@hidden <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > If I can’t find an officially supported way to do this, then yeah -
> that’s what I figure I’ll have to do. I was trying to avoid it due to user
> experience issues; requiring a second login, etc is cumbersome every time
> somebody wants to record something in the app… <sigh> Oh well...
>
> It was never a workable idea, though. It’d be just as bad for a user to
> set a password of ‘123456’ as having no password, for example, and there’d
> never be an API that *told* you what the password was so you could check if
> it was good enough. Similarly, you’d never have a way of checking that the
> current screensaver actually *obscured* the screen contents.
That's very true - my current screensaver for example applies visual
effects to my screen - it distorts, but does not obscure, my screen
contents. Under HIPAA your idea was never workable due to practical
limitations.
>
> Given the rumors floating around about next week’s grand revelation event,
> you might also want to hold off making any decisions until you see what
> Apple will have to offer. With Health Kit, Home Kit, wearables and payments
> being bruited, there might turn out to be something secure that would ease
> the second-login problem.
Second.
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