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Sure, but I won't, and neither will many other people, realistically.

There is no technical need at all for the same password to gate both local device unlock and remote end-to-end encryption key escrow.

It's a pure security vs. availability (and realistically genius bar support load) tradeoff, and I even think they nailed it for the vast majority of users! I just wish they'd let advanced users participate in that tradeoff more actively.



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