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Re:Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to ... by mkl on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:13AM (#22146307)
What if the reason they lost their password is their laptop died? Then the local storage is inaccessible, and the key is lost too.
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Re:Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to ... by j-berman on Saturday January 25, 2020 @11:28AM (#22146951)
Yep, it's a tradeoff. Similar to what if a user loses their Signal app's backup passphrase and their phone dies
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