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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by wishfish on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:48AM (#31655159)
I was worried this would happen to me. I made an entry in my notes app. "Doctor Harry Bottomsmith 801-421-8623 9 am Friday" where 4218 was my PIN.

That's saved me a few times when I blanked out. This note, in theory, will look completely innocuous in case anyone gets access to my notes.

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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by SenHeng on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:00PM (#31659384)
I've had a few of these. Until years later when I stumbled upon them again and totally forgot how they were meant to be decoded.
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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by account42 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:28AM (#31680328)
You just validated every adventure game player typing in whatever numbers they can find to try and guess passwords.
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Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life by kibwen on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:52PM (#31657864)
This is more generally known as steganography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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