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“Sorry, my old phone broke, I had to do a clean install. Don’t mind the warning.”


Hopefully people will eventually see that the same way as they see a salesman saying "sorry, I forgot my uniform and business cards, but I really do represent XYZ insurance company, give me your money."


It is my experience from providing cryptographic devices to end customers (paying ones!), that people tend to lose, destroy, wipe, brick etc. their devices quite a lot.

Loss and replacement of cryptographic tokens is an everyday occurence, and it is PITA to resolve.


Caveman also say that when give shiny item to other caveman it always break because too fragile. Shiny item worthless. :'(


Public key infrastructure in general is hell to support, especially given how long lived humans are.

Imagine trying to ascertain in 2100 if a particular will signed by a 20-y.o. using a 2022 digital signature is valid or forged.

We don't even know what is going to happen to the reliability of the algorithms themselves, much less cert issuers, revocation lists etc. Companies come and go. Certain files from the 1990s are already unreadable.




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