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		howinteresting on Aug 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS Backup and availability is where all of these systems fail. Even the new passkey sync thing is pure vendor lock-in.

epistasis on Aug 27, 2022 [–]

I'd prefer for a backup to be a second key on a different hardware device, personally.

I might also be ok if somebody like Apple had engineered a cloud solution for securely keeping backups, but only maybe.

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