John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:21:20+0100: > Pierre-Elliott Bécue writes: >> Writing down a password is a bad idea. > > Why? Because anyone falling on the paper with the password can do a lot of harm. Because you can't control what this paper will become with certainty, while it's easier to make sure you won't spell out your passphrase from your memory randomly. Because if at some point you trash it accidentally, then you're locked out (happily redefining a root password is ~trivial even if one lost it, but if it's a LUKS password then you're as good as done with your data). And because it's a bad practice that people tend to generalize and then in some not so remote future, a company's IT infrastructure becomes a pile of ashes. Don't write a password down. -- PEB
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