I think we both said the same thing, but yours used the more precise technical language and i was trying to be more colloquial

I can't tell what they're asking exactly, but we both answered slightly different questions, so one of us probably helped lol.

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 can probably correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's right.

What you're doing is that you're giving SN a string that gives them permission to give instructions to your node to send and receive zaps.

But because SN cares about security, the permission is not a blanket permission.  It still requires you to send authorized instructions to SN.  The key that enables that authorization is on your browser.  But if you lose your first browser, but you still have the key, you can still just use a second browser to do that.  First browser doesn't need to exist.

What does need to exist and be operational is the lightning node.

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@k00b can probably correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's right.

What you're doing is that you're giving SN a string that gives them permission to give instructions to your node to send and receive zaps.  

But because SN cares about security, the permission is not a blanket permission.  It still requires you to send authorized instructions to SN.  The key that enables that authorization is on your browser.  But if you lose your first browser, but you still have the key, you can still just use a second browser to do that.  First browser doesn't need to exist.

What does need to exist and be operational is the lightning node.