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And store that PDF where? Inside your Google drive which you can’t access within your t that PDF? On the same device you just lost?

If you suggest “on a thumb drive kept offline” you’ve just recreated all the problems of physical FIDO keys without offering any phishing protection.



You could just store them in a separate password manager like BitWarden? Or even encrypted in a separate Dropbox account?

Ultimately if you want to be able to recover your identity from anywhere in the world with absolutely nothing on you except cash (to buy a new device and service), you have to store this data somewhere. And you wouldn’t store this data in the same place that you’re trying to recover because that’s not very useful.

Is it without risk? No, but there is no risk-less way to be able to recover a piece of data once you lose all your possessions somewhere random in the world because the only thing you have left that you can still use is what you know.


> you have to store this data somewhere

Hmm, what if you stored it in your head? Maybe we could call it a password?




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