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RE: Tradeoffs between Web2 and Web3 accounts
If you lose your keys or have them compromised, there is no one to save you.
This isn't 100% true on hive, if you have your keys compromised you can reset them by having your account recovery on someone active and around, they can then initiate a reset as long as you prove you're the original owner by still having your old keys and contacting your account recovery person. This means that your keys will reset with the real owner re-gaining access to the account and locking away the person who stole them and changed them. Usually they do take any liquids you have around but being staked is another security measure here that works in your favor compared to other web3 accounts like eth/btc/etc.
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Ah yep, spot on.
In your experience would you say that you're better off setting your recovery account to one of your own alts.
Or to a 'trusted' friend or community member here that has no link to you/your computer?
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Good question, as long as they're separate from each other and offline I guess it's the safest method. I haven't had my owner/master keys near my PC in forever so haven't even bothered switching recovery from steem yet on this account, but there's too many people out there that keep them in emails or clouds or on their harddrive so probably best the recovery is the account creator or someone they trust in that case. Worst case is if the account creator isn't that active/around anymore like some on hive already.
Alt can be good if you know what you're doing, but if you already know what you're doing you're most likely not going to get hacked in the first place I guess.
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