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Emergency kit and 2FA
Hello Community, I hope, my question is a simple one. Unfortunately, I was not able to answer it with the help sites or by searching older post here. How do 2FA and the emergency kit work together,...
No apology needed. We've all read right past the exact things for which we were looking only to have someone point it out to us.
The fact that you are planning for contingencies puts you ahead of most. The specific case which you appear to be considering is a tricky one, with the best choices depending strongly on your specific circumstances.
An approach which might help is to not focus on "all [your] passwords", but identify what information would actually be needed by which others in the event that you are temporarily or permanently unable to do all the things necessary to access and use it. For each person you trust with an item in such circumstances, consider the important that they are not just aware, but familiar with the process of retrieving and using the information before being put in a position of having to do so.
There will be some challenging cases, such as access to personal financial resources, where the best option probably isn't sharing login credentials, while cases such as access to service providers for paying bills are much easier.
Since I'm giving unsolicited and somewhat obvious advice, I'll finish with the suggestion that you start with the most consequential items and not insist on solution which will work perfectly until the end of time.
Thanks again. Looks like I got some work to do. :-D
You're right, that my main concern is, that the situation, where a contingency plan comes to bear, will most likely be a very stressful one. 1Password Families seems like an obvious solution, but I don't have my family there, yet. Be working on it. :-)
Before I switched to 1Password, i used Lastpass. One thing there was the possibility to name emergency contacts, who could, after a latency period, gain access to your vault from their own account. I see, that that comes with its own can of worms security wise, but it had a certain appeal.
Thanks again, I'll get to work now. :-D
