My issue with Keychain is that unlocking it once keeps it unlocked, and my sessions on my iMac last forever (I rarely turn it off or log off)
Any ideas on the best way of tackling that? Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly?
Any ideas on the best way of tackling that? Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly?
Really, PCs need something like TouchID. Or something like pairing to your phone, and then detecting it in proximity and prompting a TouchID confirmation from it. Phone goes out of proximity = computer locks.
⇧⌃⏏ is insufficient?
Auto-lock/"screensaver mode" (wow, remember when computers had screensavers?) sort of does this, but the time the computer is most vulnerable (especially in any semi-public setting) is right after you dash away, not after it's been sitting idle for 15 minutes. When a computer's owner could come back at any minute, the best time for a social engineer to strike is the moment the owner leaves.
The last case especially (watching a marathon of some show with some friends) reveals an interesting bit of etiquette: it's rude to lock your computer in front of friends--it implicitly suggests they're likely to mess with it, and that you don't trust them enough to mess with it in a way that's merely funny, rather than potentially harmful. The great thing about an automatic proximity-based lock would be that, in going to the bathroom or whatever, the computer would always lock--so there'd be no decision to make which could be read into. (This is oddly similar to rhetoric regarding the incentive-structures of birth control pills vs. condoms.)
I don't wish to encourage to culture of phone over-attachment.
I am not tethered to my phone, and I don't wish to be. It's always around here, somewhere, but not on my person unless I'm out of the house. If I get up, it is going to usually stay on the table. If I go upstairs, unless I'm using it, I'll probably leave it downstairs. I am not going to worry about keeping it in close proximity to keep my computer unlocked.