🔓 Introducing Recovery Codes - Now Available!
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I keep my Emergency Kit (which was generated when I signed up for 1Password) in a safe place now. Would you recommend having the Recovery Code in the same place, or is that redundant? Is the idea that this goes in a different safe place, or is it useful together?
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That would be a highly personal decision. As for me, I keep the Emergency Kit and the Recovery Code with other important papers. A casual observer of my papers would not easily associate the two with one another.
There could be a reason where I need the Secret Key, and the Emergency Kit will give me that. If you've stored your password on the Emergency Kit, you can retrieve it from there if necessary. I think there is value in having ready access to both. My personal needs may not be the same as yours.
I typically think of my Emergency Kit as my first line of defense and the Recovery Code as my last (fail-safe) resort. I also have an additional family member who could assist me with account recovery if needed. For me, my levels of use are as follows:
- The steps below could be highly fluid, depending on the situations encountered.
- Emergency Kit.
- Account recovery from a family member.
- Recovery code.
The most important thing is to ensure they are stored safely and securely, allowing you access when needed.
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I feel like the Recovery code will make accounts much less secure and easily compromised if an attacker were to get a hold of it. Now, I think this makes it important to enable 2FA which didn't seem as important before because with the Emergency Kit, they would need the code plus master password which was essentially a form of 2FA. Now, if we enable 2FA, we'll need to set up a family member to be able to reset it. Things just got more complicated in my opinion, correct me if I'm wrong.
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