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.
Call the embassy. This has nothing to do with privacy.
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!
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.
thoughts and prayers
