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Apple power adapters could remember your passwords

Posted by BernardSwiss on · 4 comments
NewScientist; By Paul Marks 		Mail this story
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Apple has worked out a way in which the power cords for computers or smartphones can help people recover their forgotten login passwords - or the answers to secret questions (like "what was the name of your first pet?") that are often used to recover them. But crucially, Apple's system does this in a way that's designed to prevent anybody who steals the laptop or smartphone from recovering the password. The technology is predicated on the fact that when you lose a laptop, or have it stolen, you don't tend to lose the power adapter as well. So it makes the power adapter a critical part of the recovery routine for forgotten passwords.

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Comments (4)

albinard ·
That this technology uses the back doors recently revealed here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/19531/hacked_memo_leaked_appl...
DrGeoffrey ·
Remember, think different!
DrGeoffrey ·
Another, more troubling thought. If Apple is based on BSD, and BSD is not all that far afield from Linux, do we have cause for concern?

Keep in mind, I am very much a knave.

More and more, as a U.S. citizen, non-U.S.-centric distributions are drawing my attention. Regardless of whether the Republicrats or Democans are in charge.

But will that matter?
gus3 ·
All the more reason to run generic kernels.

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