I felt bad about your situation @fairytalelife but this is crypto currency world, password recovery is intentionally not design due to the protection of that identity. I'm not sure if steem engineers will make that change, now or in the future.
On that note, I'm also worried that someone will be able to take over my account. Because my username is public and the secret generated password which offer no security.
I just hope that 2FA should be implemented to add extra security to our account. We use our phone authentication during sign-up, why not extend it for 2FA?
I up voted this post. Hopefully this will help get you some coins to support your family.
Cheers,
@Yehey
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Like real password recovery, 2FA isn't possible. Both need a 3rd party involved. The blockchain can (shall) not be connected to an external centralized service. You never know how long those last. Imagine Google 2FA going down, and nobody being able to access their accounts.
The password recovery here is a compromise. By this feature, Steemit inc. (or whoever you choose later manually) has the option to revoke a key change, nothing else. This was introduced to help out when your account was hacked. The limit of 30 days is in place, because it wouldn't be possible to sell an account otherwise. The old owner could just initiate a change to the old keys any time.
Thanks, @yehey - but the real problem is why no one followed through when they could have.
I can't answer that question . I'll leave that to the steemit management.