Apple Event

[XJ-linux]

If Apple came out with an iVape APV, I'd be concerned it would tie you in to only using iJuice liquid that will only work on up to 5 devices, can't be shared, and uses a proprietary charging cable.

Ba-dum-tsss!

As far as NFC, I'll pass. Companies already have ample access to my hard earned money. I have no desire to make it easier for me to part with it. Anything can be hacked. You can reset a password. What happens (and don't kid yourself, it will happen eventually) when your thumbprint map is pirated? What's the protocol to reset, and assuming you have 10 digits, can you only reset 10 times?

 

[xpl0it]

As far as NFC, I'll pass. Companies already have ample access to my hard earned money. I have no desire to make it easier for me to part with it. Anything can be hacked. You can reset a password. What happens (and don't kid yourself, it will happen eventually) when your thumbprint map is pirated? What's the protocol to reset, and assuming you have 10 digits, can you only reset 10 times?

With NFC you can setup 2nd Factor Authentication with something like a YubiKey. So unless they steal your physical phone and YubiKey their attempts are useless.

YubiKey NEO

 

[XJ-linux]

So, you take out two devices to pay; the phone and a key fob?

 

[xpl0it]

So, you take out two devices to pay; the phone and a key fob?

Essentially you would be using the YubiKey as a second step in accessing or logging into your phone. This can also be used on the application level, for example LastPass.

The possibilities are truly endless.

https://www.yubico.com/2014/09/future-its-interesting/

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I remember several years ago, having a debate with a friend of mine about online financial security. We were at lunch, and she insisted she would never type her credit card number into a website out of fear that it would be stolen.

As we're talking, the bill came. Without hesitation, she handed her credit card to some 17-year-old kid waiter, who then walked away with it for five minutes.

It made my point that our perception of security is based on societal norms. It's "normal" to hand our credit card to a waiter, who could easily grab your card info and use it. Only a few years ago, it was scary to buy things online. Now, it's normal.

There is no way to be completely secure... if Apple Pay, or something similar becomes the norm, we'll become comfortable with it like we have with other tech advances.

None of this will matter... Skynet will soon become sentient and destroy us all anyway. Buy online and vape while you can!

I had my info stolen but not from a data breach, cops found a CC making operation and they had a card with my magnetic data on it. They said the only way they could have stolen it was from swiping my card in a reader. I'd only ever used that card in IL and they found the card during a drug bust in GA.

 

[Megan Kogijiki Ratchford]

This^. There was a time I could get in the car and completely drop off the radar. Man do I miss those days. My cellphone was a nasty byproduct of starting a business. One of these days I'm going to take a hammer to it and drive someplace I've never been before in a non-smart car.

Same reason I got one. Now I only give the number to people who I know need to reach me. In the car my iPod takes care of any call debating through volume because I have a look at it once in a while but I only use it for a phone or texting really. Hubby and I have the shared data thing but he is the one downloading tons of crap to his phone. I have a smartphone but it only get's used as one when I have to check the weather report or to look up a definition of a word in the dictionary.

 

[Megan Kogijiki Ratchford]

Yea the starlet accounts that got hacked were targeted, brute force attacks to gain access to their specific accounts. It was not a flaw of apple's systems. Any account can be brute force attacked. That's why secure passwords are over 12 characters long, contain no dictionary words, and several punctuation characters. Things to crack passwords exist, some are called rainbow tables. Just because an account was hacked doesn't mean that it was solely the companies fault. Hell, gmail had some 6million passwords uploaded to a Russian BitCoin forum - if I can get ahold of your email account I can reset all your passwords to every account you have set up with that email address. Just because I can hack your specific account due to poor password management, doesn't mean that'd be apple's fault.
Especially since the majority of people can't remember their OWN password to save their damn life. They act like it's this huge inconvenience to them, then get all flabbergasted when someone guessed, hacked, or figured out your Fido1 password -_-
If you don't believe me, you're welcome to contact apple's community affairs department yourself.

Let me guess...your password is PASSWORD, isn't it???

My BIL here right now is a professional hacker, he get's paid to test the security of Kindle. One day, as we had no wifi and hadn't a cable long enough to reach his work computer he took 5 minutes and leached a neighbor's signal. He said it's super easy as few have even simple ways to slow someone down while hacking. The only thing that protects us boring folks is how many lol catz and funny gifs do hackers want to see, anyway??

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I've found several neighbors who left the default admin password on their wifi boxes, so I could login, change the settings, lock them out, and surf away. I was a nice and warned them.

Few years ago we had a hacker / security expert at a conference. On stage with her notebook being presented she hacked into notebooks in the audience and could get to any file she wanted. took her less than 2 minutes. I run a firewall and encrypt my data now.

 

[DasBluCig]

Essentially you would be using the YubiKey as a second step in accessing or logging into your phone. This can also be used on the application level, for example LastPass.

The possibilities are truly endless.

https://www.yubico.com/2014/09/future-its-interesting/

Just set up a Neo on my iPad, using the Apple 30-pin/USB Camera Connector.....
Using it with LastPass Pro....if someone gets my iPad --- without my YubiKey....NO PASSWORDS!!
BTW.....using the "Advanced Passcode" is a good idea with Apple mobile devices....a simple 4-digit numerical sequence can be "hacked" in seconds, using the proper "tools"....AP utilizes upper/lower-case letters, numbers and alphanumeric characters....VERY secure (although NOT 100% "hack-proof"...!!)
Happy (vaping) Trails!