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Cake day: 2024年4月5日

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  • I’ll be completely honest I’m super anxious about maintaining access to my accounts. Everyone wants me to have a passkey and 2FA and yada yada. And all I can think about is what if I lose my phone or it gets stolen or destroyed, what if this cheap ass USB stick which is serving as some kind of physical key stops working?

    It seems like right now my security strategy is keep really tight track of a little plastic rectangle.

    I know there are backup codes but those are also like, their own mess, I have to print out a sheet for every other site and make sure that I keep the most recent one and toss any that are old and don’t let those get lost or anything.

    Maybe I’m overthinking it but I am concerned about it.













  • I swear to God any account system that uses security questions is brain dead.

    For one, a third party can get access to that information with relative ease in many cases but furthermore, some of the security questions are subjective. If a security question asks me during account creation what my favorite restaurant is, what my favorite food is. That answer might literally change, I might not be able to remember the head space I was in when I made the account.

    Yes yes let’s protect your password with three shittier passwords for no good reason.