szczyrkowa-deactivated20230924:
i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it’s common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i’m starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that’s what it’s built for. but nowadays we don’t think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don’t keep address books anymore because it’s all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it’s all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you’re still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.
as someone who worked in the cell phone industry for five years: this. your email requires two factor authentication to your phone. setting up a new iphone requires two factor authentication to your old iphone. putting a new phone on your phone number requires two factor authentication to a previously active phone on your account. if you ever lose your phone or if it refuses to wake up one day, god help you because no one in the industry can
Tags:
#yes this #one is none‚ folks #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #I have specifically arranged my cloud-storage setup to *not* require 2FA #(there *are* multiple layers of encryption involved‚ but–carefully–only with passwords that I’ve memorised) #so that‚ if it came down to it‚ I could bootstrap back into having a full copy of my archives #–complete with version history– #with nothing but my memories and a computer with Internet access #the potential-future mes who just fled a burning home with nothing but pajamas and (bedroom-table) respirator have enough problems already #also‚ check your government services and see if they sell paper maps #Ontario will sell you one for five bucks #I have one in my bug-out bag #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 