Comment by RulerOf
18 days ago
There was a magical period. I suspect it ended with the introduction of the Secure Enclave. But maybe it was a little later.
An encrypted iTunes backup of a device was a perfect image. Take the backup, pull the SIM card, restore the backup to a new phone with the sim card installed, and it was like nothing had happened.
No reauthentication. No missing notifications. No lost data. Ever.
It was nice.
Security theatre killed this. Everyone must be assumed to be a moron incapable of living with the consequences of their own choices at all times.
It's not theater. If an attacker can duplicate your device, that's a problem.
Says who? How do you know what’s on my device, how much it matters to me, and what countless other options I have for recourse if that did happen?
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