Terence EdenJun 7, 2025

Here's the nightmare scenario for anyone who uses a password manager, 2FA, and other modern online security tools.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my-digital-life/

I've locked myself out of my digital life

Imagine… Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A smouldering wreck. Yubikey? A charred chunk of gristle. This presents something of a problem. In order to recover my digital life, I need to be able to log in to things. This means I need to know my u…

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Show threadadingbatponder  👾Jun 7, 2025
@Edent This problem would perhaps be helped by having a very very secure but ultra small (to be cheap) fire-proof and disaster-proof box, inside another one, for one ubikey that serves as the 2FA for your password manager and a couple of email accounts, and which is tested on the 1st April every year. I was wondering what sort of boxes would suit.
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@adingbatponder that doesn't get around the problem though. What if that box is destroyed or stolen?
I'm talking about how you can bootstrap from nothing.
Jun 7, 2025 at 5:15pmTusky
Show threadadingbatponder  👾Jun 7, 2025
@Edent Oh. Sorry. My understanding of the article was that once you have 2FA then you cannot. At least I cannot see how.