As we all know, privacy starts with security, which leads many people in this community to seek out secure services / software, some relentlessly so.
Then life happens, and suddenly you find yourself naked in a back alley in Hanoi (or if you already live in the region, you might instead find yourself naked in Santiago de Chile), stripped of all belongings and at best some vague recollection of an unusually good night. What is your strategy to regain access to what you need to get back home?
An no, the staff at the hotel does not recognize you.
As an old retiree I know that life is incompatible with long time plans, life always has other ones. More important to have enough mental sources to be capable to make the bestt of current situations.
In a word, prevention.
If a good night out includee waking up hung over in a foreign country, it’s time to head to an AA meeting.
Call the embassy. This has nothing to do with privacy.
thoughts and prayers
I’m thankfully currently not in that situation, but while the situation is meant as a joke, the question is serious.
If I stored everything I needed on a Google account that’s not 2FA-enabled and with a password you remember in your head, things are not that bleak in this particular situation, although it is hardly a convenience that makes it worth it to have that kind of setup in my opinion (and I would assume to most people frequenting this community).
guess i live in Hanoi now
I host my password manager (VW) on my server. The password of my server is on said password manager. Am I screwed?
I have ONE password written down on paper, laminated, and hidden in a spot where only the wife and I know. Can you guess what it’s for?
hunter2 can both be stored in a password mananger and be remembered!
The password to my home server is a salted hash of my primary (memorized) password, so I can recover it from any computer that can run the hash function. From there I can access the rest of my saved passwords, bookmarks, etc.
That’s simple and smart. I had played around with the thought of storing encrypted versions of my password manager vault freely available, and making the password a Ceasar cipher of the first letters of each chapter of some book I am sure to find freely online. Not so simple and smart, but at least some fun. Except maybe when you actually need to use it.
I’d start by installing arch
On what computer, and where did you get the ISO from?
Arch people always carry both with them at all times.
