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Many users are effectively phone-only these days. Assuming that a user has at least two devices is dangerous.


As I said, one device is enough.


In principle true

- Having 1 password for Google account + one passphrase may be great - in a sense holy grail

But... as some one doing CS for many people

- People just dont focus or show importance to these things

- People will forget the passphrase and lose data

- The importance to the data that was lost is MORE painful than the 'loss' of privacy

- So many people incl. my spouse live totally in phones (and work laptop). With the advent of large screen phablets (a.k.a - all new phones) - one does not even need any tablet.

- Sure, your advice is logically correct but reality for most is that people still treat password or PIN as a PITA.

I sincerely wish some country will pass strong privacy laws + have a connection between google/apple account with national ID of some type so that people can validate and reset password of SV behemoths. But again - strong privacy laws so that neither govt not SV misuses it.




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