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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 11:17:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200706111724.4a19f02c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4fd30c4-ce62-f84d-6995-86517b0acd5d@iinet.net.au>

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:05:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:

> > By the way, the USB stick will have instructions about things after
> > I'm buried or whatever.  I plan to keep the USB stick in a safe and
> > share the password with the person that will be taking care of
> > things.  When I'm gone, they can open the USB stick to access files on
> > what to do and such.  Until I'm gone, they won't know what is on the
> > stick or have access to it.  Getting older makes one think about these
> > things.  :/  External drives will have things that when I'm gone, they
> > gone too. 
> >  
> Paper in a sealed envelope in a safe (bank safety deposit box etc) ...
> too many things to go wrong with an encrypted USB.

I too have a USB stick in the safe, but it's not encrypted. As you say,
too much to go wrong that way. I actually use 2 sticks, just in case one
of them corrupts.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Barnum was wrong....it's more like every 30 seconds!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-06 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-04  2:23 [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout Dale
2020-07-04  3:49 ` Francesco Turco
2020-07-04 13:01   ` Michael
2020-07-06  4:49 ` Dale
2020-07-06  5:24   ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-06  6:37     ` Dale
2020-07-06  9:05       ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-06  9:46         ` Dale
2020-07-06 10:17         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-07-06 11:02         ` Rich Freeman
2020-07-06  8:21   ` Neil Bothwick
2020-07-06  9:53     ` Dale
2020-07-06 10:19       ` Neil Bothwick

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