I was just thinking about my password manager and use of 2FA. If I lost my phone or what if I get in some accident and have amnesia and cannot remember my master password. What would I do?
Any thoughts on solutions to the problem of losing your phone or some emergency medical condition?
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Amnesia - I wound not know that I have a password manager. I wound be very screwed. No one else in family even understand what it is. I don’t know what to do about it. At least they know I have a Gmail account. But I don’t use it for logins. Maybe I can regain access to my domain with BankID. I have the password file on phone, server and on my workstation. So I will be fine regarding hardware failure.
I keep my vault password in fireproof containers in two separate off-site locations. And I use BitWarden, which has an emergency access process. I would assume many other vaults do too.
2FA backups are also stored in locations separate from where I have the vault password.
I also backup my vault a few times a year and keep those encrypted in another digital location.
what if I get in some accident and have amnesia and cannot remember my master password
NGL, you’d probably have bigger problems than remembering passwords if that’s the case.
This is true, but it’s worse to have two problems.
Any thoughts on solutions to the problem of losing your phone
Having a backup copy of your password manager on more than one device and location.
I have mine on phone, pc and usb drives.
Single points of failure are always a problem.
https://github.com/cyphar/paperback
The very important secrets get replicated into multiple places using Shamir’s secret sharing.
This includes a backup copy of physical security keys with biometrics inside of them.
