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I discovered a weird thing. Well actually, it has been bugging me for at least a year and a half. Do this: 1. Write a random string into a search field in your browser app, like HelloTest:12345 - make sure the letters before the colon are mixed upper case 2. Cut out that whole string and paste...

This is a bit odd, but on Sunday I received a password reset email from Apple saying that it had been changed successfully. Well, I didn’t notice this email until today but over the course of this week I got several of the “Your Apple ID and phone number are now being used for iMessage on a...

Hello. I'm usually quite security oriented, and throughout the years I steadily increased my protection. First with different and strong passwords, then with a password manager, then with a vpn and soon with a usb access key. Naturally, I have grown interested in this whole new Passkeys thing...

Recently I have bought a Samsung T7 Shield 4TB SSD drive. I would like to protect the data on this particular drive. I wouldn’t mind if it’s with a password or encryption. As long it has some protection which is reliable. Reliable as in for instance it doen't depend on software updates for it to...

In the process of setting up a new Mac running Monterey. I do NOT want my passwords stored in iCloud. Have NOT signed into iCloud on the Mac and have not turned on iCloud Keychain. Setup my email account. Using the Keychain Access app I noticed that Keychain record the email password...

I just received this for the first time on my Macbook Air M2

ok fellas, I need y'all. I did a clean install of macOS Sonoma & didn't realize I had encrypted The USB. when I plug it in it ask for a password I don't remember it but I remember saving it to keychain. but its not In my iCloud Keychain. I think it was saved to the local keychain which is gone...

Hi, New 15 max pro and I did not transfer anything from old phone. passwords and keychain is on but passwords not sync in the phone. I see them in ipad. i cannot even toggle the sync off (clicking the toggle does not do anything). in reddit people seem to complain same issue. any tricks to get...

On my Macbook with Ventura 13.5.2 I noticed Safari is making up additional incorrect passwords for sites I visit. So if I have a password for someexamplewebsitesite.com with the username John Smith it will add additional entries with wrong passwords. When I go to sign it, it shows lots of login...

I am currently testing out the Apple's Passwords Manager, I replicated my entire 1Password 300+ entries including 2FA. All seem to be working well and fast. I love about this integrate well with Safari and Hide My Email as well. Only thing I wish is a standalone app instead of having to visit...

Any chance macOS 14 allows using the apple password manager on apps like chrome or other web browsers? I know they have a plug-in for PCs but not for Macs.

My wife has a 2017 MBA still running Catalina (10.15.7 - Yeah, I know). Recently she's had a couple of odd password problems that I think are keychain related: • The machine keeps "forgetting" WiFi passwords. When I check the keychain on her machine, there is no entry for the SSID she's trying...

In the past, I have edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config by making sure that these lines are present: PubkeyAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication no ChallengeResponseAuthentication no Today, I came across a Stack Exchange post that referred to macOS updates returning /etc/ssh/sshd_config back to...

Hi there, I'm using Mac desktop's keychain for storing site passwords and want to sync those to my iPhone without using iCloud (or any other method that involves my logins going online). Is there an offline way to manually achieve this? Would airdrop be an option for bulk sharing? Or does...

I hadn't been having great success using Touch ID but noticed soon after updating to Ventura that it was working flawlessly so I thought maybe something had been changed. Now all of a sudden it's temperamental again. The sensor is clean. My question is why it's not letting me have more than one...

I woke up this morning and logged into my Mac (Ventura 13.2.1). For some reason, it required me to change my password before I could log in. I never had to do that before. On top of that, it requires a >=14 character password. My last password was not that long and I prefer to keep it that...

Dear All, I don't know the password of the only account of my iBook G4 that has OS 10.5.8. There are several methods to bypass this problem. One of them is to change (All) All in passwd: all in the single user mode as it's described here: https://www.macobserver.com/tip/2003/06/16.1.shtml I...

Does anyone know of a good 3rd party app that lets you browse through/interact with your Keychain? They made a lot of progress in Ventura with the newer passwords interface in System Preferences, err, System Settings, but there's things missing like Secure Notes and such that you can only get...

Is there a free file-compressing app that you would you suggest, one that will have an option to set a password for protecting the compressed files?

I have few intranet sites that requires http auth user/password. Even if I have it saved in keychain, site keep asking me for this credentials and I need to fill it manually every time. Is there some trick, to not asi me each time, or some hidden settings? I googled it but without success. Thanks.