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by eightys3v3n 143 days ago
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/538
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alternatively, being held in contempt for a decade for refusing to give passwords

the only real defense of privacy these days is to literally not write anything down or store it in any way

You should also have several large random blobs with incriminating filenames on your hard drive. Attackers won't know which one is encrypted and which one is random. If you like, you can have an encrypted blob of decoy data next to your random blobs and your actually incriminating encrypted blob, and if you're duressed, you reveal that one as the real one.