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What I never quite understand is how this can work in practice. When someone is under real duress, they do not always behave in a logical way and may be too str
by als0 5y ago
What I never quite understand is how this can work in practice. When someone is under real duress, they do not always behave in a logical way and may be too stressed to remember certain details like a password that they never use...
- C19is20 5y agoPractise.
- joefife 5y agoDon't be that person, especially when you're wrong. Both forms are acceptable. "In Australian and British English, 'practise' is the verb and 'practice' is the noun. In American English, 'practice' is both the verb and the noun."
- bonzini 5y agoI thought he wrote that reply as a suggestion, i.e. that you should practise typing the duress password beforehand.
- salawat 5y agoI thought he was demonstrating how. Make your password a very unlikely but relevant typo of your actual one. Now tge real question is, was the poster in a state of duress when thy typed that response?
- brokenmachine 5y agoI'm Australian. Never seen "practise", only "practice".
- MonadIsPronad 5y ago'In practice' is correct, no?
- marton78 5y agoI think they meant "you should practise your duress password".
- drexlspivey 5y agoYou don’t understand how someone can remember a password under stress?
- Sebb767 5y agoIf you used that password twice two years ago when you installed the module and you're suddenly pulled in an interrogation room in a foreign country? When you have about one chance to enter it right while some very angry officers look over your shoulder? I can absolutely see that.
- atoav 5y agoThis is why usually these trigger-passwords are just a variation suffix away. If your real password was 123456 + Ok a system like that would trigger if you e.g. append a certain sign to it: 123451 + Ok. So you don't have to remember a different password, you just have to remember the one character or button that makes it call security.
- RealStickman_ 5y agoMaybe using a prefix would be better. Similar ease of remembering it but you won't have to fight your muscle memory at the end of the password.
- INTPenis 5y agoI completely agree. I have long passphrases. The only way I can imagine remembering a duress passphrase is to make it slightly different in some way. So that means I'd have to keep updating my duress passphrase alongside my regular passphrase. Either way I love this idea and I might actually start using it. I'm just trying to figure out how to set a practical passphrase I will be able to remember. My passphrases generally are in muscle memory after having entered them for a few days. Edit: A simple system I just came up with is to use one of the numbers in the passphrase and increment it by one to indicate each level of duress.
- Arbalest 5y agoInteresting idea. I find that it's pretty hard to modify the end of a password though, I'm likely to press enter rather than add anything else. Probably a good idea to change the first character, so you have the rest of the password to remember that you're supposed to do that.