The Lockdown - Practical Privacy & Security
006 - When you Lose your Phone, Nextcloud, and Backups with Restic and Backblaze B2
Jan 5, 2024
Topics in this episode include: Privacy.com and avoiding bank account lockout, the relevance of the CIA Triad to everyday privacy concerns, tracking lost phones with FindMyDevice, the debate between biometric authentication and passcodes, using Nextcloud for backups and note-taking, and the importance of backups with Restic and Backblaze B2.
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Quick takeaways
- Having a backup funding source and reconsidering the strategy is important when dealing with potential issues like lockouts with privacy.com.
- Balancing security and convenience by choosing biometric authentication based on one's threat model can enhance privacy measures.
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Issue with Privacy.com account
The speaker discusses an issue they faced with their privacy.com account where they were locked out due to a technical problem with the funding source. They switched to using privacy.com integration with their bank login as a temporary solution to avoid failed transactions. However, when they tried to switch back later, they were locked out again. The issue resulted in a realization of the limits of privacy.com and prompted the speaker to set up a backup funding source and reconsider their strategy.
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