Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️
Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID.
I am writing this as a desperate measure.
Careful: when you self-host everything then you equally have it all in one basket. Be very careful with that server of yours.
I do the same, to get away from the corporate risk, but I am acutely aware of the individual risk.
I try to keep redundant multisite backups. Not just of data but of entire server configurations. It’s a lot for one guy to handle in his spare time.
Everything is backed up to multiple homelabs of family and friends. Privately federated backups are the way to go.
yeah until your shit gets sucked up in someone else’s subpoena.
The backup I receive from my twin is encrypted. To me it’s just one big unreadable file.
you can’t unencrypt it.
the NSA on the other hand may have capabilities you’re not privileged too lol.