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I have a wife and 2 kids under 13. - We have a phone that never leaves home and has no SIM card. We use it for banking apps and 2FA critical services. - So ou
by rodolphoarruda 5y ago
I have a wife and 2 kids under 13.
- We have a phone that never leaves home and has no SIM card. We use it for banking apps and 2FA critical services.
- So our "street phones" don't have any banking apps installed, nor social media apps, 2FA nor password managers.
- We have a paper notebook with secrets and 2FA recovery codes in the bookshelf sitting among many other notebooks and old dusty random stuff.
- Our kid's phones have DNS pointing to Cloudflare's family filter server. Their YouTube accounts are set to filter adult content.
- We use BitWarden family plan for sharing passwords among us.
- We use a Keybase team to share documents between us and our personal devices. Everything is, in theory, encrypted and we can revoke the device in case it gets lost/stolen.
- Our laptops have luks drive encryption and we transport them turned-off. So in case they are lost/stolen, data in the drives are unreadable.
- snowwrestler 5y agoI’m curious what threat model your first two bullets are intended to mitigate.
- rodolphoarruda 5y agoKidnapping and extortion. In the place I live, criminals hold you under a gun and use your phone to wipe your accounts clean. Bank accounts, crypto wallets, everything. Sometimes they even take pre-approved loans on the victim's name and then transfer the money to their accounts.
- TacticalCoder 5y ago> I’m curious what threat model your first two bullets are intended to mitigate. "Smishing" (aka "SMS phishing"), for a start. Then it seems to me that a phone that is only used for banking apps and 2FA is less likely to be owned than a phone used for everything under the sun.