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What if he forgot the password with all the stress from the lawsuit?

• unsnap_biceps 2y ago
  It's been attempted and they were charged with contempt of court https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/contempt-of-court-decrypt-password/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/contempt-of-court-de...
  • wruza 2y ago
    Pretty sure it’s per-case per-judge basis, not a general rule. Generalizing over a half-confessed guy makes a good scary headline. In the article the guy unlocked his phone app (a hint he was initially talked into confession). Which gave extra evidence to what his sister claimed. And it was a csam case which rendered him way less sympathetic. Remove any of that and the balance may change. The judge has to find a reasonable cause for contempt first. Would they charge him with contempt if he just lawyered up and forgot everything from the start? All that said it doesn’t mean you want to risk it for some company, even remotely. The guy probably weighted both deals after realizing where he’s in and chose a lighter one. You may want to not get either one.
• taylodl 2y ago
  You should be keeping all your passwords in a password vault, at a minimum. Even better would be to use a password manager. You should have too many passwords of too high of complexity to commit them all to memory.
  • marssaxman 2y ago
    How would you get into such a password vault without first decrypting your disk? On my Linux machine with full disk encryption, the system doesn't even boot until I type in the password.