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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by danieldk on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:26AM (#31653177)
Imagining someday I go on vacation and valuables are stolen, including that disk. Now that friend’s supposedly personal data is compromised, as of course they would set a lower protection on something that is supposed to be used during emergencies.

Just use LUKS or FileVault full disk encryption. Your friend just has to memorize one password. If it gets stolen, it's as good to a thieve as random data.

Same if the disk gets corrupted because we didn’t realize it’s stored next to the fan, and 2 years were enough to have an impact.

I would tell them to make more than one off-site copy. It's their responsibility to not just depend on you.

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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by makeitdouble on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:37AM (#31654094)
TBH I wouldn't expect someone stealing hard drives along more valuable stuff to just plug it to their Windows machine and call it a day because it doesn't mount.

Also the thief doesn't need to be the one dealing with the data, the same way people stealing cars are usually not the ones brokering them, and brute forcing an offline password wouldn't be crazy long considering it's supposed to be memorable (possibly by more than one person)

Just to say, spreading backup hard disks here and there, and assume everything will be fine even if some of them get lost in the wild feels like a pretty laid back attitude in contrast to the length spent on having a fully functional 2FA system.

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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by aaronmdjones on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:28AM (#31654872)
LUKS these days supports Argon2, which has configurable time, memory, and parallelism parameters; brute-forcing a single weak password can be as slow as you want it to be. The offline backup of my pass(1) repository on a thumb drive on my keychain takes more than 3 minutes to unlock on an i7-7700K.
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