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Would the threat of slicing off your arm not work equally well in getting you to give up your password? It certainly would for me.
by sanswork 17y ago
Would the threat of slicing off your arm not work equally well in getting you to give up your password? It certainly would for me.
- jrockway 17y agoPasswords are better in a number of ways. If the data is really important, you can always carry around a suicide pill, and know that if you die, your data dies. For more normal data, you have the opportunity to give up your data in tiers. If someone threatens to cut off your arm, give them a password that unlocks most of your data. You can have another password for the super-secret stuff. They are happy that they got your data, and you get to keep your arm (and super-secret data). Basically, you can have decoy passwords and accounts, but you can't have a decoy arm-with-RFID-chip.