[harikb]

Hypothetically, he might have remembered his real password but the Government didn’t protect the bit-rot capable hard drive and it is the hard drive that is now bad. May be sector level checksums and probabilities rule them out but it is possible in the grand scheme of things

[rootusrootus]

I wonder how it would work out if you confidently gave the wrong password.

Edit: I guess this case actually answers that, to some extent. Before he said he forgot the password, he tried a couple for them.