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.
I have a disaster recovery plan, but part of my disaster recovery plan involves not posting the details of my disaster recovery plan on the internet.
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Call the embassy. This has nothing to do with privacy.
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.
Y’all know they give you backup codes for your 2FA, right?
Coded printout in my fire box. Encrypted version on my home laptop. Worst case scenario is losing my phone and passport on day 1 of a long trip.
You also don’t have access to your fire box in that Hanoi alley.
Of course, but at that point I have no passport and I’m the victim of a crime, so I have to go to the embassy to get a temp passport and ask them to help me figure out how to get a new flight and cancel credit cards.
At this point the question is where are my house keys to get in and pay a taxi guy mad cash from the airport to my house?
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.
Lawyers Guns and Money intensifies
Farming
I don’t think privacy or digital accounts would be any concern to me at that point. I’d mostly want to get somewhere safe, then get my passport or a new one, and get home. Then I can deal with the loss of devices.
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.
I host my password manager (VW) on my server. The password of my server is on said password manager. Am I screwed?
hunter2 can both be stored in a password mananger and be remembered!
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?
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).
When was the last time you tried to access a Google account from another device in a nee location? They won’t let you in, you’ll be in a maze of fake “wrong password” errors, recovery emails that never arrive because they have nevet been sent and whatever they came up with this year.
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Upload a keepassXC vault to a cloud service like drop box. I have an encrypted version of my 2fa authentication config file in my keepass vault. If i where to loose everything i could recover logins. Remember Never upload a unencrypted file to the cloud!
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.
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