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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by frostwarrior on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:28AM (#31654850)
My approach to that is to follow xkcd advice with an emergency password which looks less like a random string but more like a real world phrase.

I try to use my local language and some obscure local slang to avoid being guessed by an international dictionary.

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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:49PM (#31659888)
> My approach to that is to follow xkcd advice with an emergency password which looks less like a random string but more like a real world phrase.

Yeah, for my master password, I use a slightly misheard line from an episode of a 90's TV show. Googling my misheard version in quotes only gets 6 hits, and it's 30 characters long, so very unlikely to get cracked even without replacing letters with symbols or adding a suffix.

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