Updated App from Apple Brings iCloud Passwords To Windows (arstechnica.com) 10
Apple has released a new version of iCloud for Windows, numbered 12.5. The update adds the ability to access and manage passwords saved in iCloud from a Windows machine, a feature that users have long requested. From a report: Apple has been gradually adding more support for iCloud passwords on non-Apple platforms with mixed results. The company released a Chrome extension that synced iCloud passwords with Chrome. But like this new iCloud Passwords app, it did the bare minimum and not much else. Still, this addition is welcome for users who primarily live in the Apple ecosystem (and thus use Apple's iCloud password locker) but who sometimes have to use Windows. For example, some folks use an iPhone or a Mac most of the time but have a Windows PC that is only used to play games that can't be played on the Mac.
Re: 2 FWD/1 BWD. (Score:3)
What is the point? (Score:1)
"And you'll see why 2022 is exactly like 1984." (Score:3)
Will Apple be reporting illegality to secure iCloud uploads from Windows the way it will from iPhones?
This is ironic because their famous 1984 ad was all about Apple defeating Big Brother as the boot stepping on a human face, forever.
Yet here they are. If so, it's doubly ironic because Big Brother was IBM, and Microsoft, not even famous yet, was the to become the cool new disruptor replacement to IBM.
So if Apple, on a Microsoft platform, begins implementing the feared 1984 Big Brother is watching you panopticon framework, well, we're sorry, IBM.
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Someone should sue Apple over this using this theory: Apple isnscared of getting into trouble with the law, or at least lawsuits, for people uploading illegal stuff, even though Apple's design was to not have any knowledge as a security selling point.
If so, government legal armtwisting is thus forcing them to scan and report to government, which makes them an agent of government as far as 4th Amendment violations go.
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As a parallel, imagine the laptop repair shop that stumbles across illegal stuff. Reporting it is fine, as long as they don't have some kind of agreement or deal with the government to do so.
Now imagine their lawyers tell them they better scan and report lest they themselves get in trouble for having such a laptop in posession.
Moved off Apple's Keychain ~ a year ago (Score:3)
Since then I've been using Bitwarden. More features, cross platform - works great.
For work we have LastPass Enterprise. The feature set is similar, but I prefer Bitwarden's UI.
Whatabout Chrome@Mac, Firefox or Android? (Score:2)
Can we do messages yet? (Score:2)
I'm stuck on an iPhone, since my Android phone died after a wash load :(
I can go to messages.google.com on a PC connect my SMS / Text to a browser Window, simple stuff, very handy.
Having to pick up my phone to send an SMS is so archaic, tell me this can be done on a PC without a Mac?
I already know I can't remotely deploy software, one of the most crazy things I've heard!
When I'm setting up my spare iPhone for the first time and I have a browser window open, it'd be nice, with my typing speed to go
CTRL -T (n
The timing is right. (Score:2)
Wish they would do a Linux version too. With 1Password heading down the Electron way, this might work out as a free replacement.