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Give your parent's email as your recovery email address. If you need to reset, you can call them and talk them through clicking the link and resetting the password.

The bad guys then have to crack your parents email account too, and being older they will be less likely to have daisy-chained Google, Apple and Amazon accounts.



They will also more likely have picked a password that's easy to brute force.




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