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What Enabling 2FA Everywhere Taught Me

Lessons from auditing my own accounts: recovery codes, authenticator backups, and the accounts I almost missed.

4 min read2FA · Hygiene · Personal Security

The accounts you forget matter most

The audit surfaced old forum and shopping accounts reusing passwords from years ago. They felt unimportant, but each one was a password-reset path into my email.

Importance is not about what the account holds — it is about what it connects to.

Recovery codes are part of the setup

Enabling 2FA without storing recovery codes just trades one lockout risk for another. I now treat printed recovery codes as part of finishing the setup, not an optional extra.