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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by jakeogh on Sunday February 12, 2017 @03:29PM (#13630539)
Surprisingly easy to do. I have a LUKS laptop drive that I doubt I will ever get back into. Went on vacation and that was it. All I could remember is it's strong, random, >15chars and started with a S.
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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by brokenmachine on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:32PM (#13632727)
You expected to be able to remember a >15char random password?

Or did you have it in some kind of password store that you no longer have access to?

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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by jakeogh on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:57AM (#13633597)
Since it was a laptop boot PW I generated (ranpwd), wrote it down, memorized over a week or so and then lost the piece of paper. Wasn't too concerned because I "had it"... until I didn't.
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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by rfrey on Sunday February 12, 2017 @05:46PM (#13631528)
Don't take it across a border.
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