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When Security Locks You Out of Everything
June 28, 2022, 11:22 a.m. | Bruce Schneier
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Thought experiment story of someone of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything:
But to get into my cloud, I need my password and 2FA. And even if I could convince the cloud provider to bypass that and let me in, the backup is secured with a password which is stored in—you guessed it—my Password Manager.
I am in cyclic dependency hell. To get my passwords, I need my 2FA. To get my …
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