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There’s really no reason to have a separate plain text confirmation here, just an indication that what you’re seeing on screen is not a phishing attempt by a rouge app[1]. A single ‘secure mode’ LED would suffice really. How come no one can even ‘innovate’ this little, other than Apple?

[1] Obviously though this is better, because it can be completely driven by the secure path, as you say.

Also the axed Escape key is a textbook tactic to cause fake controversy to get free marketing.




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