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January 9, 2026 • LIMac General Meeting on Passkeys with Kirschen Seah
Happy New Year LIMac and welcome to 2026! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season.
Web safety is a subject that always seems to be at the forefront of discussions, news articles, and important reminders from everyone in and around the computer industry. Part of using the Web safely, be it for searching, shopping, banking, ordinary every day email, streaming video, or… whatever, is to be aware of scams, bad actors, evil bots, phishing emails, etc., and have a plan of defense against those “evils” lurking out there.
With that in mind, more and more, websites are encouraging users to use 2FA or passkeys. If you don’t know what 2FA or passkeys are, you’re in luck because our guest this month is Kirschen Seah. With her background in Computer Science and programming, and her desire to share her technical insights, Kirschen is uniquely qualified to educate us on passkeys. (Kirschen calls herself a, “software geekette, bike mechanic, avid cyclist, and pilot,” who “started programming in BASIC on a Fujitsu mini-computer back in 1978.”) This past summer Kirschen presented her talk, “Passkeys Demystified” at Macstock 9 Conference and Expo, so for most of us who didn’t travel to the wilds of Crystal Lake, Illinois, this is an opportunity to hear her speak on that very same subject.
Following the main presentation, our Technical Advisor, Bradley Dichter will field your questions on Macs, iPhones, iPads, Apple software, and more!
Your first meeting is FREE. Annual individual membership is $48.00, which covers all immediate members of your family. Please email Donald Hennessy at AboutLIMac@aol.com for details.
 You’re Invited to the MacBasics SIGIn order to meet the needs of a wider range of members and not put off those with more than beginning skills, we’ve changed not only the name from Beginner SIG, but also the focus of our SIG. We will still cover applications like AppleWorks and simple procedures like setting up your first Mac, file systems and using utilities, but we’ve also matured, as much of Apple’s software and hardware has. So come on down. We'll be where we’ve always been, doing what we’ve always done, but with a new slant and a new name. The MacBasics SIG is led by Geoff Broadhurst and Rick Matteson. The SIG meeting is broken into two sessions. The first is from 7:00 to 7:30PM, during which we will have our own basic level question and answer session. We’ll break for the featured presentation and raffle and come back for the main portion of our SIG meeting from 8:30 to 10 o’clock. Of course before our MacBasics main demonstration we'll have our own novice Q&A session across the hall, while Bradley's dealing with the more complicated problems in the main room. As always come with questions. The MacBasics SIG is not just for beginners, but we do discuss aspects of the Mac that may sometimes be overlooked. There will be a MacBasics SIG meeting this month. The topic has not been announced. |
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