Of course, the proper solution here is to enforce MFA on the dormant device — requiring that it be online, and report its location to you before prompting you for a token.

But I guess that would be annoying as well.

1) “Device Added to Your Account” is not true. A device that’s been part my account for more than a decade has rebooted. Because it falls flat on its face every 36–48 hours and has to be helped back to its feet.

2) “If you don’t recognize this device…” You don’t provide any information that would help me to identify this device in the exceedingly rare edge case where it’s not something harmless.

So non-actionable fear-mongering.

As in “give me an option to never see this alert ever again”.

*I mean, not quite, because that’s clearly insane on multiple levels.

Interesting, I have a 2012 Mac I still use sometimes, and a 2006 that even gets booted rarely, but haven't seen it. Wondering if it's because I've always avoided iCloud and iMessage features that maybe saves me.

(That's not a Monday morning thing to write....)