Very good point. The key here is to make sure your devices are all fully encrypted. Feel free to turn them on to prove they are real.
But never decrypt. If this results in you missing your flight, so be it.
But never decrypt. If this results in you missing your flight, so be it.
Why? Is that more important to stay locked than miss granma's funeral, or more positively, 75th birthday?
If you're a security person, I suspect his recommendation would be - even though he doesn't understand IT and tech - to say you don't even understand how SSH works or can't tell the difference between encryption and hashing.