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by donmcronald 1021 days ago
Every fallback method adds risk. Realistically though, I don't think any of it really matters. By far the weakest link everywhere is SMS/Email based account recovery and it's almost impossible to avoid those.

Sometimes I think the average person would be better of with a highly secured email account and magic links for everything else. Even for me, I have YubiKeys, TPMs, etc. configured for everything, but if I forget to lock my laptop and someone walks off with it, they have access to my email which is basically my entire digital life due to account recovery via email.