What if i don’t remember my own password?
It says “until” so you’ll be having plenty of time to remember it.
“Well, we raided his mom’s house and confiscated all his cobbled-together e-waste.”
“And!?”
“His drives were encrypted. Apparently he ‘applied PQC patches to dm-crypt himself’, whatever that means. All I know is that it made the guys from NSA scream. There was nothing we could do.”
“So we’ve got nothing?”
“Oh no. He happily gave us both the keyfile and the passphrase.”
“So…?”
“No warez, no CSA, no political manifestos or illicit recipes. Not even tax evasion - it’s not like he has an income. Just… copyleft source code as far as the eye could see.”
Linux nerds literally only want one thing and it’s fucking the idea that your full disk encryption will pay off one day.
That’s the best part, it can never really “pay off.” It can only mitigate. Hardly seems worth it to me. Alas.
Aren’t you worried about your laptop getting stolen?
I personally am only worried about data loss, not data theft. But I do take privacy relatively seriously nonetheless.
