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How about Taking a computer to a repair shop. The staff will have access to your computer and passwords


You are simply explaining why you don't give people your disk encryption password. It's a lot of access, and just about impossible to be sure there's not substantial valuable content in free space or swap on disk.


I’m saying if passwords are available to someone with physical access to a person’s computer, there are many situations when that physical access is had without the owner realizing their passwords are at risk




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