{"id":38230,"date":"2023-01-20T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38230"},"modified":"2023-01-21T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T17:10:46","slug":"local-ios-backups-repeatedly-prompt-for-passcode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/20\/local-ios-backups-repeatedly-prompt-for-passcode\/","title":{"rendered":"Local iOS Backups Repeatedly Prompt for Passcode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2023\/01\/11\/iphones-and-ipads-now-require-a-passcode-on-every-backup-sync\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2023\/01\/11\/iphones-and-ipads-now-require-a-passcode-on-every-backup-sync\/\">\n<p>Instead of preventing AppleMobileBackup from backing up to custom locations without additional permission, Apple chose to mitigate the vulnerability by forcing the user to enter the device&rsquo;s passcode on every backup or sync connection. And it works: Apple&rsquo;s new approach prevents the backups from being directed to an unprotected location unless an attacker knows your device&rsquo;s passcode. If they know the passcode, there&rsquo;s far worse that they could do with your iPhone or iPad and the data stored on it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Apple&rsquo;s solution is particularly ham-handed because it adds a non-trivial step to <em>every<\/em> USB or Wi-Fi connection attempt by <em>every<\/em> iOS\/iPadOS user who backs up or syncs locally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2023-01-21): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34463677\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Instead of preventing AppleMobileBackup from backing up to custom locations without additional permission, Apple chose to mitigate the vulnerability by forcing the user to enter the device&rsquo;s passcode on every backup or sync connection. And it works: Apple&rsquo;s new approach prevents the backups from being directed to an unprotected location unless an attacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-20T21:35:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"0c1e4586-2044-434d-b7b5-c220a60dd57d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-21T17:10:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADB5FhiBEQ023tcIgpg3VfQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,31,2185,30,2223,981,48],"class_list":["post-38230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-passwords","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38242,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38230\/revisions\/38242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}