Hi @spydrop Bobby
I am not sure I am seeing the whole picture. You seem to be saying, by analogy, that by locking my keys inside my car, I should always be able to start it. But now I don’t have a way to get in the car in the first place!?!
The access token is a key that you rent (it expires) that lets you talk to your cores over the cloud and is the way the cloud knows it is you, no matter where you are coming from. There are a bunch of ways to rent that key described in this doc section: