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What happens if your phone gets crushed by a runaway elephant?
by marcinzm 6y ago
What happens if your phone gets crushed by a runaway elephant?
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- graton 6y agoHopefully they will have already activated a couple U2F hardware tokens as backup. Having only one copy of the MFA device is of course a bad idea.
- marcinzm 6y agoSure but now the "very simple process" is no longer so simple and in fact the simplicity merely a dangerous limitation.
- graton 6y agoWho said security was a "very simple process"? It is of course up to people if they want to enable additional security and of course have to put up with increased friction and difficulty. Myself I consider what would it mean if someone got access to my Github, Gitlab, and/or email accounts and have decided that I will put up with the cost (buying U2F tokens) and hassle (having to use the U2F token to login). The alternative is the much higher chance that someone could at some point get into one of my accounts.
- marcinzm 6y ago> Who said security was a "very simple process"? The post I responded to basically did: > That's it. Did a bunch of complicated stuff happen? Yes, but the user didn't do any of that, so they needn't care
- tialaramex 6y agoI think you should call the authorities to report that your local zoo or safari park is poorly managed if this keeps happening so that it interferes with how you regularly use web sites. More seriously - yes, you still need a more complicated recovery procedure for extraordinary cases, but these are now truly extraordinary cases, rather than, as the original thread claimed, just a routine nuisance for the user.