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maurycyz 2 hours ago

This. A physical safe provides something that you can't do digitally: It's hard, but not impossible to get in without credentials.

On the internet, it's either: Public for anyone in the whole world, or impossible to recover if anything goes wrong.

kylehotchkiss 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I've broken into Physical Safes using nothing more than a drill with a half inch bit (I was young and didn't want to drag myself to harbor freight to sacrifice a more suitable tool). Enough boreholes and I had access.

In hindsight, looking harder for the key would probably have been fruitful.

0cf8612b2e1e 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Nothing says you cannot trivially encode the paper password. Those in the know understand that you need to append “BoomShakalaka”, replace “A” with “Q”, or some other super simple modification to what is recorded.

Maybe the NSA would be willing to brute force the infinite variations from that starting seed, but it is still effectively locked for mortals.

mathstuf an hour ago | parent [-]

I've thought about making a "word search" and embedding the passphrase in it using a pattern (e.g., a subset of a Knight's tour, a space-filling curve overlay, or some other sampling algorithm).

unsnap_biceps an hour ago | parent [-]

https://www.passwordcard.org/en

I used to keep a password card in my wallet and had a pattern I would use.