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by lxgr 1004 days ago
The government can totally take and use your Yubikey as well.

Or often also just ask the service that you’re protecting a login for for your data directly.

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If you're using a service.

But there are actual setups where storage can be encrypted with a Yubikey, and the Yubikey is protected by a PIN that's in your head, and other possible factors, so now we're in $5 wrench territory.

Yeah the only thing that can beat the $5 wrench is plausibly deniable encryption + training to pass a polygraph.

Very few people have this threat level and the will power to go that far.