My 2FA recovery codes were in an encrypted note I couldn't open

Last month I locked myself out of my email because the password manager update wiped my saved logins and the recovery codes were sitting in an encrypted file I made with a key I forgot. Took me 4 days of calling support and digging through old backups to get back in. Anyone else keep recovery stuff in layers of security that end up biting you?

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jordan3054d ago

The trick is redundancy. I keep one copy on paper in a fire safe and one in a plain text file on an old usb stick. Nothing encrypted, nothing that needs a key I might forget. Layers sound smart until you're locked out of all of them. Sometimes dumb and simple is the whole point.

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