by BjoernKW on 11/12/2015, 5:55:06 PM
Today, this happened to me, too. Very weird and very annoying indeed.
Authenticating to a service such as the App Store via password without using a password manager feels very anachronistic and insecure.
This always makes me think that there has to be a better solution than passwords for authentication. Password managers such as 1Password are great but they still are a work-around for an essentially broken system. Plus as long as there's no close OS integration we'll always run into situations like this.
by chrisked on 11/12/2015, 12:00:05 AM
Could it be some malware? I remember some phishing attempt recently with an apple iCloud prompt. Have to search to find the story. Couldn't find at first try. Will update here once found.
by laveur on 11/11/2015, 10:48:47 PM
Are you sure it wasn't asking you to log in to your iCloud account if you where using iCloud to share your password data?
by DerekL on 11/12/2015, 6:28:22 AM
Yes, but with BBEdit, not 1Password. It happened tonight.
by motyar on 11/12/2015, 3:19:27 PM
I got same for 'Download Shuttle'
I tried to launch 1Password on my Mac (as I always do). I was prompted to log in with my Apple ID by the App Store. Something about 1Password was purchased using a different computer so they needed to verify my Apple ID to ensure I made the purchase (I bought this a long time ago so wonder why this is coming up now). Oddly enough, this never happened before. The request is fine and all since I did buy it through the App Store originally except for one giant problem...
All my passwords are random insanely long passwords auto-generated by 1Password. I don't memorize that stuff (including my Apple ID) and that's the whole point of using 1Password in the first place. The very thing that has all my passwords is inaccessible because the stupid App Store requires Apple ID verification before proceeding (a catch-22). If I don't verify and log-in, the application effectively never launches.
Thankfully I have 1Password access on my other devices and was able to login and verify, but I can already imagine a scenario where this could have been blocked on everything.
Anyone else encounter anything like this?