I hear a lot about Matrix being a truly decentralized protocol.
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Places burden of protecting one's identity onto end user. Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices. With @delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
I find the trade-off fair and in fact quiet like it, but it assumes the end user is being careful and protects their device well. And in many cases users are, unfortunately, rather lousy with their gadgets and data.
If you loose your device nowadays, normally your first priority is how to go back home without Uber
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If you loose your device nowadays, normally your first priority is how to go back home without Uber
I think we as a society need a better culture for keeping and taking care of personal devices, but yeah, here we are needing smartfone for literally everything.
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Places burden of protecting one's identity onto end user. Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices. With @delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
I find the trade-off fair and in fact quiet like it, but it assumes the end user is being careful and protects their device well. And in many cases users are, unfortunately, rather lousy with their gadgets and data.
> Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices
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> With delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
worse case you tell everyone to kick the old profile from groups etc. and write to you from the new one
stealing your profile is not so easy unless you use phone without PIN, with multi-device as backup is hard to lose it
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