The Doctor's advice I don't get the reference¹, but for deprecating a device this could be a concern if your phone or similar device suddenly stops working² and that is required to prove who you are.
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[1] perhaps searching for some officially, erm, unsupported medication resulting in getting blocked by a service that list closely enough linked to an identity provider that the ID account is locked also? — seems a stretch
[2] or is lost/stolen – a potential problem with any physical security token or virtual token if you only have it associated with a single device
examples are numerous. There was this father who sent the doctor photos of a medical problem of his child and the trustee of the digital identity locked his account. With all his digital life, payment channels, communication, you name it. Even the police asking the trustee to unlock was of no avail. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
Or there is this munich company whose employee visited it's parents and immediately the company github account got locked. Parents happened to live in Iran.
The Doctor's advice I don't get the reference¹, but for deprecating a device this could be a concern if your phone or similar device suddenly stops working² and that is required to prove who you are.
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[1] perhaps searching for some officially, erm, unsupported medication resulting in getting blocked by a service that list closely enough linked to an identity provider that the ID account is locked also? — seems a stretch
[2] or is lost/stolen – a potential problem with any physical security token or virtual token if you only have it associated with a single device