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What's wrong with an online backup? Offline backups are tied to their physical representation and can get lost in disasters for example. Spread your risk.
by jupp0r 3y ago
What's wrong with an online backup? Offline backups are tied to their physical representation and can get lost in disasters for example. Spread your risk.
- Topgamer7 3y agoMoreso about providing the capability to roll your own backup. Online backups an be foiled if they only provide gdrive backup for example.
- LeoPanthera 3y ago> What's wrong with an online backup? If Google decides you have Done A Bad, suddenly you can't login to anything, anywhere.
- jupp0r 3y agoThat's like saying that all food is unhealthy because of McDonalds.
- fbdab103 3y agoOnline backup stuck inside Google's walls is the opposite of spreading my risk. An offline backup I can control, I can put in a safe for my relatives in case I die unexpectedly. Or I am robbed. Or any number of foreseeable circumstances where the physical manifestation of my secret is lost.
- SebastianKra 3y agoAFAIK, you can use a physical key anywhere you can use a passkey [1]. And you can register multiple passkeys. So it would be perfectly possible to have your logins in a safe somewhere while having additional passkeys for daily use. You just need create the backup manually for each account provider. You can't extract all your passkeys from a device. But for me, the online-backup provides enough redundancy. In order to be locked out, I'd have to loose all my devices and, at the same time, be banned by my cloud provider. [1] at least that's what the Safari-UI suggests.