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by Dlanv 978 days ago
Your computer can also be a passkey. I currently use both my laptop and my computer as a passkey, and a USB drive. So I have 3 backups to my Google account.

It is true that you do need to be rich enough to own a phone and ~100 USD of something else (laptop or USB), which does put redundancy out of the reach of a large portion of the world. But then they can just use regular 2fa at the expense of not being phishing-proof.
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svieira 978 days ago
Yes, but in order to add new items to each piece of hardware you have to be physically co-located with all the pieces of hardware you want to use as your backups. Which means they cannot be geographically distributed (or if they are that there is a period of time in which you aren't fully backed up). Which means you're either in a place where you can loose all your keys (e. g. a house fire or a flood) or your in a place where you can loose all the devices that have a key.
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tmpX7dMeXU 978 days ago
You have to be within several layers of bubbles to not see how small a percent of the general population are going to even understand any of this BS.

Things being this complicated makes them a non-starter. A nerd vanity project.

And this isn’t a knock on the “intelligence” of the general population. They quite rightfully won’t want to spend their limited time on God’s earth learning about all this.

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