Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)I'm hesitant to use 2FA because I'm worried I'll be locked out of everything if I lose my cell phone. And if something bad happens where my laptop and phone are broken or stolen, I'd definitely be locked out of everything forever.
Gregor Aisch@sharoz there are Authenticator apps that allow you to backup the 2FA accounts on a cloud account so you easily can restore them on a different device. Opens another attack vector, but prevents you from getting locked out.
@gka Except many cloud accounts need 2FA 😬
@sharoz some also provide you with backup codes in case you lose the device. I think that's a solved problem, right?
Although I wouldn't know where my backup codes are if that happened to me, to be fair 🤔
@sharoz another solution are full phone backups, e.g. iCloud backups for Apple devices. They let you restore all apps including the authenticator apps, right?