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Installed Steam on a new computer. Signed in. It sent a passcode to my GMail. I signed into GMail. It wanted me to 2FA because I hadn't signed into Google on that device. It sent a notification to my phone, which I never received. I had it resend the notification twice, still nothing. Tried again with my phone's offline passcodes. Neither worked. Tried the QR code/Bluetooth connection, and that finally did it.

At least I got through in the end, but fuck, it's annoying.

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

the problem is, and it seems like a legitimate problem, is that in this context a backup is also a back door.

I don't know how it is possible to have any amount of security without the possibility of being totally locked out in some situations. how can you assure that you can reset a password but prevent anyone else?

It seems intractable. Password managers have been available for a long time and if people haven't started using them yet en masse I see no reason to expect they might any time soon.