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drawback of having the phone password underpin the entire security model: if someone’s looking over your shoulder when touch ID or face ID isn’t working, you’re fucked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYODQB_2wQ
do account systems like this not have a “go to a store and show ID” fallback process?
They don’t. When I recovered my Apple account a few years back, I tried to go to store and show ID and they said they couldn’t help me. Why not? Who knows.
@hikari @horsebatteryhealth Generally because someone gets the bright idea that “humans don’t scale”