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by whartung 740 days ago
When I bought a new iPhone, and restored it from my old phones backup, my TOTP data from the Google Authenticator apparently didn’t make the trip.

If I didn’t have my GitHub recovery codes, I would have been in trouble.

Arguably, that’s what those are for. But the key point is that I did a mundane, routine transaction. My house didn’t catch fire, my phone wasn’t stolen, I didn’t act negligently. But I was potentially this ][ close to disaster.