Off topic, but I had 2FA setup on my phone for various things, and had it stolen overseas. I was able to lock the phone and erase it...but I was stuck overseas without being able to access anything or reset it. There has to be a better way.
TOTP with password protected key backups in the cloud?
(Bonus: recovery keys you keep offline, in your wallet or something)
I did have some keys backed-up in the Cloud. One issue is that because I was overseas a lot of security protocols locked me out of my accounts -despite- my keys and required an SMS message first...which of course I didn't have a phone with my SIM, so it was impossible to do.
Literally wasted my whole day on this :(
typically you just disable the 2fa requirement until the issue is resolved.
If you can disable 2FA, without using 2FA to authenticate first... is it 2FA?
Many sites give you a recovery code of some sort that you can use to disable 2fa in the event you were to lose access to your authenticator app or texts.
Well I'm sure you'd have to enter your password to disable 2FA.