top | item 31656679

(no title)

nicknow | 3 years ago

I would need to recover access to my password manager and my 2FA authentication tool (which is cloud backed up.) My password manager has recovery codes and my 2FA has a recovery process. Those - and, actually my email service's recovery codes (although technically not needed, since I can use the password manager and 2FA but this would speed up my time to access) - are in hard copy and stored in my safe and at a safe at a relative's home several hundred miles away. For additional security, there is a word written on the envelope at the relative's house that the relative knows to require I provide if we are not in-person (to prevent someone faking a call and asks for the information.) The document is also sealed and included with my Will, which is held by my trusted executor.

With that document I can recover access to my complete digital life.

The advantage is nothing changes. New accounts are added to my password manager and 2FA, but nothing needs to change on the recovery process side.

There are some other ideas I have, if I didn't have a trusted relative/friend, who I could give the document to but I haven't felt the need to implement them.

discuss

order

No comments yet.