PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by bredren on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:53PM (#28268937)

The "guy with the gun" narrative comes up a lot, so this seems to counter that? I love the concept. It seems like something that would work well in a movie but fail miserably in real life.

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by nuvious on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:23AM (#28285087)

Author here and I wasn't really thinking of this as a useful use case either. Most of my consideration was say corporate espionage or journalists working in authoritarian countries where killing the person would create a highly visible incident. Mostly was just a thought-experiment turned into a real implementation. With any tool like this the risks/benefits should always be considered.

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by simonlc on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:46PM (#28269443)

This is really good, I've had a gun pointed at my head more than enough times with all my bitcoins wiped, finally a solution to my every day problem.

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Re:PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations by bredren on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:45PM (#28272136)

I got a chuckle out of this. Only the paranoid HODL.

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