Thankfully, it didn't take more than 30 seconds online to get the code I was after, even though the site was in Finnish. Not bad - fucking convenient.
The ability to restore the Puk is great. However it represents centralized control and a huge security risk. Many have had binance and other exchanged and banks hacked due to lax security of SIM providers
It is odd that you take comfort in this procedure being simplybamd convenient.
In Steem's case you need to know your previous code and contact your account creator in 30 days. Limited recovery is possible.
Alternatively, you can always trust me with your keys, or store them on an encrypted zip file on a usb pr paper...
I don't, it was meant to be somewhat ironic, hence the, fucking convenient.
I will post them here in the next comment.
yes.
That's good, didn't catch the irony right away.
I really wish companies would allow us to refuse this to be possible except in person.
If you find someone's wallet and phone it's just too easy in most cases. Sometimes you don't even need either, you just gotta be sure they are unable to answer their phone at the moment.
Here it is usually through bank sign-in codes, which are one off use - or authenticator apps.