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0 pointsalterom1mo ago0 comments

>Yes, it means that in the event of catastrophic failure I might not be able to log in to some services until I get to one of the backups. I haven’t been able to imagine a scenario where that would be truly problematic.

No need to imagine!

Remove all passkeys from your phone and laptop, then go somewhere overseas without any of those Yubikeys.

Have fun enjoy a "not truly problematic" scenario of getting your Yibikeys from "multiple locations" you don't have access to, while being cut off from your messengers, email, bank account, etc.

Bonus points for having your card locked or stolen at the same time.

Or, imagine the backpack with your passkeys devices being stolen on an overseas trip.

Again: pray tell, then what?

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slau1mo ago· 2 in thread

> Remove all passkeys from your phone and laptop

I don't have any passkeys on my phone or laptop. They're all on the Yubikeys.

I don't really see a difference with (some) password managers, though. If you use one of the keepasses, and you lose access to the file, you're in the same situation right?

And yeah, you're right, there is a risk of inconvenience. I'm not debating that. I just choose to organise my life in such a way that it is just an inconvenience.

Joker_vD1mo ago

> and you lose access to the file,

It's literally at https://github.com/Joker-vD/keepassdb/raw/refs/heads/master/... in my case, plus a couple of other free hosting sites that support easy updates/reuploads, so losing access to it requires losing access to Internet — in which case you don't really need any (alright, most) of your passwords because you need Internet to connect to the services that require those passwords.

slau1mo ago

OK, fair, I never left my keepass file exposed like that when I used keepass.

If I remember correctly, 1Password still requires a "vault key" in addition to your username and password, and it was definitely too long and not used often enough for me to remember.

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