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  1. Lost Your Phone? Every Route Back Into an Account Runs Through the Device That Is Gone

    Losing a handset should be an inconvenience. For most households it is a lockout, because the recovery path and the lost device are the same thing.

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  2. No Evidence of Misuse: What a Data Breach Letter Is Actually Telling You

    The letter says there is no evidence of misuse and offers two years of monitoring. Both statements are true and neither is the part that matters.

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  3. Where Do Your Passwords Actually Live? Three Answers and the Threats Each One Stops

    A notebook in a kitchen drawer is near perfect protection against a database breach abroad and no protection at all against a burglary. The browser is the opposite.

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  4. The Backup Nobody Has Ever Restored From: One Evening That Settles Whether It Works

    A backup is not a device or a subscription. It is a restore that has been performed at least once, and everything before that is an assumption.

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