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Yeah that part was hard to read.

But Macs work similarly IIRC; if someone has access to your iCloud account, they own your machine as well.

I think this is more of a comment on the cloud-centric-everything-must-live-in-the-cloud-now mentality than anything else.



Of course, macOS and Windows 10 both still give you the option of creating user accounts independent of an Apple ID or MS account, which is what I do on my macOS and Windows 10 systems.

But there's good reason these OSes tie local logins to online accounts. The average user is more likely to get frustrated forgetting or not understanding why their email password is not their login password, than the (comparatively) rare scenario that someone will compromise the one-account-to-rule-them-all and wreck all their data. My grandmother confuses her Gmail login with every other online account because they all use the email address as a username.

Also, I'm continually amazed how little normal people care about the data on their computers. I still have all my files from when I was 5 years old on my main machine, but most people only care about bringing over whatever they're currently working on when they get a new machine.


Just manage your account on your device yourself. It seems stupid to me to trust apple or microsoft with owning my password auth on my own device. I am shocked any dev does that.




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