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Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

124 points · 131 comments · keymasta

  1. mrj · · focus · HN ↗
    This is why my self-hosted Vaultwarden is my one password that I have to remember and requires no 2fa, which is the only important account that doesn't have 2fa.

    If I wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney I can still get to my passwords and 2fa sources stored with it. Some accounts require SMS (annoyingly) so I'd have to buy a phone but the auth and credit card numbers I need to do that are in Vaultwarden, too.

    I don't have good solutions now for OP (other than buy a new phone through your carrier and transfer the number). But everyone else do think through your personal DRP. Generate backup codes and put them somewhere safe, too.

    1. bazmattaz · · focus · HN ↗
      Welll yeh until a Hargrove fails on your self hosted server
      1. mrj · · focus · HN ↗
        I "self host" on Hetzner for Hargrove avoidance
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