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What I find a lot scarier is that macOS seems to store your local user's password as a hash with Apple.

A few months ago I was signing in on my MacBook, and it asked me (assuming because I did not have a mobile number attached) for my Hackintosh local user's password to 2FA.

May be buried in the depths of the EULA, but I most definitely never agreed for my LOCAL account password to be uploaded to Apple.

At least signature checks can be blocked (for now) on a DNS level. What about my passwords?




If you’re using iCloud then that’s coming from keychain. That’s how you can reset the local password with your Apple ID.


Never been using iCloud, on any of my Apple devices




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