Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress

Posted Aug 25, 2021 22:33 UTC (Wed) by vadim (subscriber, #35271)
In reply to: Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress by jebba
Parent article: Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress

This is discussion is about a PAM module, though.

* It doesn't apply to cell phones anyway.

* Ideally, carry your documentation on paper. It doesn't run out of battery, and it's far easier to leave home without incriminating papers than without incriminating files on your disk. Computers store all kind of caches, logs and history data all over the place.

* If you already know you're going to go through a checkpoint, you can just wipe whatever you were going to in advance, without having to hope they're not going to image your drive first, that it'll work as intended, and that nobody will notice what happened before letting you through.

* If you think you can be searched unpredictably, the best solution to that is not to have anything interesting on you. Keep your basic docs and cat pictures. Ditch all the incriminating info, or bury it somewhere it can't be easily found if it must remain in existence.

Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress

Posted Aug 26, 2021 19:11 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

The problems many Afghan people have/had is that the documents they need to pass the military guards at the Kabul airport are the same documents that can get them killed if the Taliban find them.

So you have to leave your home for the airport with incriminating documents, or there is no point in leaving it at all.