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4 comments on “What If I Lose Everything When Traveling?”

  1. All this can happen in other scenarios, which sadly, may occur more often than traveling.

    Family members went to work one morning, then a wild fire came through town and decimated many homes in just a few hours.

    At the end of the day, they literally only had what they wore and the other detritus one takes to work, which thankfully was their phones, their wallets, and some forms of I.D.

    Their home and all the contents were just a pile of ash.

    But they were lucky, many others were killed.

    They could not return for many days.

    This can happen anywhere to anyone, please take note of the ideas expressed in this article.

    Thank you Leo.

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    • Losing everything in a fire is much worse than losing everything wile traveling, but the data recovery after that would be somewhat different. In your city, you can walk into your bank and sort out your credit and debit cards. You can go to the DMV and work out your identification. The same with phones and Internet.

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  2. One way to keep from losing your logins is to use a password manager. They allow you to have an encrypted version on their servers which you can access online. Unfortunately, sites that use two factor authentication will require some hoops to jump through.

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  3. Is it so unusual to lose one’s phone and wallet when travelling? This is exactly what thieves/pickpockets are targetting.
    And yet we’re pressured into relying on our phones for everything and having them be the key to our identity.
    Yes, you should have recovery codes as well but very few services actually provide, publicize, much less require these at the time they push 2 factor authentification on you.

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