It may be a PITA, but probably much less so than having your personal data/pics stolen and circulated on the WWW.
Do you recall the iCloud celebrity photo leaks in 2014?
Those accounts were hacked because they used weak passwords and iCloud security was weak - it did NOT use two-factor at the time.
In Sept. 2014 Apple posted the following statement to its website. https://apple.co/2QYbDat
'Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation
We wanted to provide an update to our investigation into the theft of photos of certain celebrities. When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately mobilized Apple's engineers to discover the source. Our customers' privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet. None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple's systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone. We are continuing to work with law enforcement to help identify the criminals involved.
To protect against this type of attack, we advise all users to always use a strong password and enable two-step verification. Both of these are addressed on our website at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4232.
In other words, Apple says this leak wasn't due to any holes in iCloud or Find My iPhone. The celebrity accounts were specifically targeted and likely breached because of weak passwords and a lack of two-step verification.'
TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION FOR APPLE ID
Two-factor authentication is an extra layer of security for your Apple ID designed to ensure that you're the only person who can access your account, even if someone knows your password. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
USING APP-SPECIFIC PASSWORDS
App-specific passwords allow you to sign in to your account securely when you use third-party apps with your Apple ID.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204397
FOR ANDROID USERS:
TWO-STEP VERIFICATION FOR APPLE ID
If you want to improve the security of your account, but don’t have devices that can be updated to iOS 9 or OS X El Capitan, you can set up two-step verification for your Apple ID.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204152
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I’ve been driving a lot lately, and have been wanting to listen to ebooks on my iPHone as I do so. It’s fairly simple to turn on VoiceOver and have what sounds like Siri read my books to me, but honestly? She’s a terrible narrator. The VoiceOver voice is heavily robotic, and it’s difficult to understand what’s being read to me most of the time, so I end up giving up or contemplating purchasing an audiobook from iTunes.
But I’d really like to just continue the ebooks I already have on my iPhone while I’m driving. That way I can listen to them while in the car, but actually read them when I’m not. NaturalReader just might be part of the solution I’ve been looking for, so I figured I’d share it here with you.
Download the free Natural Reader app from the App Store, and open it with a tap on your iPhone. There’s a welcome file that you can have your iPhone read to you in order to hear the default voice. Tap the Play triangle in the lower left corner of the screen to listen in. You’ll find out that NaturalReader has over 30 voices in 5 languages, so you can try them all out in your language of choice to see which sounds the best to your ear. Tap on the gear icon in the upper right hand corner to change voices and language settings.
Once you’ve chosen a voice that sounds most intelligible, you can start loading other text documents in from a variety of sources, including Dropbox or the web. Tap on the little three-line icon in the upper left of the main NaturalReader screen, then tap Dropbox. Tap Allow when NaturalReader wants access to Dropbox, and then you’ll see your Dropbox files, ready to be read to you. NaturalReader will read RTF, PDF, Word documents, and more right from your Dropbox. Slick.
To load ebooks and other files, you can connect your iPhone via iTunes and add any documents from your Mac to NaturalReader to have it ready for later reading. For eBooks, you’ll need to find some that art HTML or PDF-based, and add them to Dropbox or iTunes. Now, if only NaturalReader would let me read my Nook or iBooks, I’d be super happy.
Free App For Mac
Source: App Store
Via: Addictive Tips