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		bandrami 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android... If I forget my LUKS passphrase no power on heaven or earth can recover my data

fragmede 3 months ago | [–]

St. Gabriel, sitting on his cloud, looking at his Nvidia GPU supercomputer (also a cloud) fabbed by God, could totally bruteforce your LUKS key.

ulrikrasmussen 3 months ago | [–]

That's sort of the point of LUKS, and it's self-inflicted and your own choice because you didn't back up the key.

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