[janpieterz]

If you still have access to them, yes. Problem is if you don't. And we need to be mindful that it's easy for us to say these things being very digitally native, while there's a huge part of the population that isn't so digitally aware and relies on companies like Apple to "make everything work".

[toomuchtodo]

I don’t disagree. It’s why the FTC and other federal regulatory agencies should require some sort of identity bootstrap process if you lose all of your digital identity credentials.

I’ve submitted comments to this effect to the FTC, and I’d encourage others to as well. Email (where all roads currently lead) should not be your identity in the 21st century, and losing a device or Big Tech account shouldn’t permanently banish you from digital account access.

Some relevant comments I've written on the topic in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691082 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691156