[notemaker]

With risk of being spammy, this is probably the most relevant discussion I've seen so far on HN w.r.t my experience of being locked out from my Apple ID.

I hope legislation will force Apple to step up and be more transparent / helpful.

https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket...

[thomaslkjeldsen]

From the timeline:

> got my Macbook Pro from work and signed in to my Apple ID on it.

Wouldn't this result in unintentional data sharing from the work device to your personal devices? (and vice versa)

[notemaker]

In hindsight, yes that was a bad move (especially considering that my work laptop is still locked to my banned ID…)

As an Apple noob at the time, I assumed that if my MDM-managed device prompted me to log in with my Apple ID, that it of course would be an allowed action.

With regards to data being shared, the only thing I noticed was wifi passwords and peripherals pairing (apple keyboard).

[nerdponx]

Yes, do not do this.

[orloffm]

It's enabled in some corpos. Allows one to make AirPods auto-jump between one's iPhone and work laptop etc.

[HumblyTossed]

Yeah, I would never do this. My work iPhone is on a whole separate Apple Id than my personal phone.

Never mix work and personal. It isn't worth it.

[borgbean]

This is why I don't sign in or enable 'find my' on any of my devices. Apple even has a backdoor which bypasses the encryption, allowing them to wipe a device in store.

Logging in takes control of your device out of your hands.

[thefifthsetpin]

Why would you need to bypass encryption to wipe the device?

[phantomathkg]

I would expand to cover not only Apple, but Google and Microsoft.

[1970-01-01]

You don't have a requirement to have an email account to login to Windows. MS is pushing it hard, (deceptive trend in big software) but the user can still push back.

[initplus]

Don’t want to sound like I’m victim blaming the author. But I can tell you exactly the issue with their account: registering with an email on a self hosted .xyz domain. Using sketchy tld’s is just asking for this kind of trouble.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

[beeboobaa3]

Nothing sketchy about self hosting your email. Sure, that is what the big tech cartel wants you to think so you're forced to let them handle your correspondence "for your own safety". Don't believe their lies.

[yau8edq12i]

"Sketchy tld"? Even google's parent company uses it for its corporate website.

[notemaker]

FWIW, it's not self hosted. I use Fastmail. Thanks for the link about .xyz though, I was not aware it is associated with spam.

[Zambyte]

I would say that SMS and invasive email services are sketchier than using .xyz.