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		rankiwiki 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit A simple starting point for me was checking password reuse and enabling hardware-based 2FA everywhere possible. It’s surprising how much risk disappears just from that.

preciousoo 4 months ago [–]

I’m wary ofhardware 2fa because I’m prone to losing things. Do you have a plan for if that happens?

KomoD 4 months ago | [–]

I do nearly all my 2FA with Yubikeys, I carry one with me on my keychain and then I have another one in a safe as a backup.

preciousoo 4 months ago | | [–]

makes sense, I didnt know you could have multiple (learned in this thread)

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