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I've gone back and forth on this. It's frustrating there is no way to provide yourself a fully "grounded" digital footprint in the same way your financial footp
by extr 3y ago
I've gone back and forth on this. It's frustrating there is no way to provide yourself a fully "grounded" digital footprint in the same way your financial footprint is grounded to the US legal system. AKA in a financial/legal sense if I am the victim of massive identity theft or fraud, locked out of all of my assets, I can physically go into a bank or police station and find a "throat to choke" to start making things right. But if you are completely 100% pwned online you are basically at the mercy of customer support! And email is the critical link in the identity chain. So you want to choose an email provider or domain host that has a findable throat to choke.
For me I've tried to move most of my most critical accounts to a fastmail email address. Are they perfect? Of course not. But I pay them, so I know they won't capriciously ban my account without warning or recourse. I know if I file a support ticket someone will see it and get me on the right track.
Moving to my own domain is tempting but as far as I can tell just adds another layer of trouble to this. Am I confident namecheap support will come through in a Very Bad Scenario? Kind of? Not really?