- #141
Vanadium 50
Staff Emeritus
Science Advisor
Education Advisor
2023 Award
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Having one thing and knowing one thing is not inherently better or worse than knowing two things or having two things.
You can still lose or forget things. Many "security experts" are so worried about a bad actor coming in and depriving you of your stuff that they do not think about the risk of losing or forgetting the key, which also deprives you of use of your stuff.
The two solutions for this would be a "master key" which unlocks everything, which now has the risk that the master key can be stolen, and am authentication system that requires M out of N keys. As mention earlier, bank transactions sort of do this already.
You can still lose or forget things. Many "security experts" are so worried about a bad actor coming in and depriving you of your stuff that they do not think about the risk of losing or forgetting the key, which also deprives you of use of your stuff.
The two solutions for this would be a "master key" which unlocks everything, which now has the risk that the master key can be stolen, and am authentication system that requires M out of N keys. As mention earlier, bank transactions sort of do this already.