Subj : Re: front door & grab your keys
To   : Warpslide
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Thu Jun 10 2021 11:25:37

Warpslide wrote to August Abolins:

W> That's where account recovery comes in.  If you forget your password you 
W> can
W> reset it.  If your MFA token (whether physical or digital) can't be used, 
W> you
W> are usually given recovery codes, which I then save in my password 
W> manager.

Like Sean, I'd have at least one spare MFA token in a safe place.

Learned that lesson the hard way.

W> Some sites are a PITA to recover from MFA.  Like Linkedin for example I 
W> had
W> to scan my driver's license & sent it to them to get my account back.  
W> Years
W> later they had a data breach, so I feel super good about that decision...

I was involved in that data breach at LinkedIn also. :/

--Sean



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