• pressanykeynow@lemmy.world
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            25 days ago

            Well in reality they will use waterboarding or some other technique that ensures suffering while not being life threatening. There’s actually a great movie called Unthinkable about this.

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              25 days ago

              That still doesn’t mean you’re gonna remember it. I forget my master password all the time. Torture would just ensure I’d forget it even worse.

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              25 days ago

              I see, still i wouldn’t remember the password, i need to find my master passwd on a piece of paper somewhere i don’t know myself

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        “If this password doesn’t work, I’m going to break your thumbs.”

        “Uh…”

        “Yeah, its not the real password. Lets break his thumbs and ask him again.”

    • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      25 days ago

      yes

      there was another crypto kidnapping (also in russia) a few years ago, they tortured him and got all his apes. DeFi, kinda scary

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    25 days ago

    “Well, we raided his mom’s house and confiscated all his cobbled-together e-waste.”

    “And!?”

    “His drives were encrypted. Apparently he ‘applied PQC patches to dm-crypt himself’, whatever that means. All I know is that it made the guys from NSA scream. There was nothing we could do.”

    “So we’ve got nothing?”

    “Oh no. He happily gave us both the keyfile and the passphrase.”

    “So…?”

    “No warez, no CSA, no political manifestos or illicit recipes. Not even tax evasion - it’s not like he has an income. Just… copyleft source code as far as the eye could see.”

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      25 days ago

      I lol’d at this. But seriously, privacy is a fundamental human right. You don’t need to have something to hide to assert your right of privacy.