my colleague who's travelling from Shanghai to Europe got his iphone stollen in Barcelona. Now he can't log in his icloud to lock and erase his only apple device from anywhere.
Nor can he log in his Wechat because he's also lost his SIM card and outside of China there's no way to get his credential back. And WeChat is everything to his daily life and work.
speaking of how you could hate the fucking KYC'd centralized services you're using everyday.