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Who's providing the back up? How do you re-authenticate if you lost the thing you use to authenticate with? It's easy saying it but I don't understand how you
by account-5 4y ago
Who's providing the back up? How do you re-authenticate if you lost the thing you use to authenticate with?
It's easy saying it but I don't understand how you do those things. If the answer is you need a password to access the backup and to access an account to re-authenticate, I'm not enjoying the irony. If the answer is to trust a company like Apple, Google, Microsoft with the literal keys to my kingdom then this thing misses the point.
Currently I'm in control of my authentication, why would I hand that to some company and hope I don't annoy them enough to ban me, or just randomly cone up against their AI guardians.
- mrtksn 4y agoOn iPhone's case it's Apple and it is accessed by a password but in this hypothetical scenario it could be your own infrastructure or another device you own and that one can be password-less of that's your thing. Having one password to activate your authentication device is not a gin deal, it can be something like mnemonic seed etc. The hazard is not one password but endless ways to authenticate through endless passwords.