A required “more secure” method is less secure if it means you can be locked out by not-exactly-uncommon real-life situations.

Denial of service is a security issue.

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hedora 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve repeated it a hundred times security = confidentiality, integrity and availability.

One reason to strongly prefer Apple over Google is that (as I understand it) you can still walk into a store with ID and recover your online identity.

	▲	jwr 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> One reason to strongly prefer Apple over Google is that (as I understand it) you can still walk into a store with ID and recover your online identity. Is this true? If so, in what countries? (Poland has no Apple stores, for example, for inexplicable reasons Apple has been giving the middle finger to this market) That would be a huge difference.

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kaycey2022 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think Google’s own textbook on SRE has an example in its very first chapter where everyone gets locked out of their bus fleet WiFi thanks to their secure system reaching an unforeseen state