Comment by flerchin
1 month ago
Imagine you lose your computer and phone. How do you recover your digital accounts? This happens every day to someone. The most common scenario being a house fire or robbery.
1 month ago
Imagine you lose your computer and phone. How do you recover your digital accounts? This happens every day to someone. The most common scenario being a house fire or robbery.
If only smart people didn't already have a solution to this https://support.apple.com/en-us/102641
The same way you recover your account when you lose a password.
I don't get it. I recover an account at ticketmaster by receiving an email. I recover an account at google by???
Receiving an email at your backup email address? Getting a text message? It’s whatever you have decided to set up in your account, the same as with a password.
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What benefit does your 128-bits authentication schema gain when anybody can just clone a phone number?
Or do you demand that the user has an email with that 128-bits authn too, with a key on the same phone that was lost?