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If you want those signs of life to be convincing, it should include all kinds of history without long gaps, such as:

- email, including recently received and sent emails

- web browser history

- system logs

- software updates

In practice, I think it’s impossible to do that. If the police discovers, for example, that your system logs show your machine was off for a week, but they also just saw you reset it, what do you tell them?

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>>but they also just saw you reset it, what do you tell them?

That you're not a computer expert and have no idea why your computer wasn't keeping logs correctly?

not an expert, yet you set up an encrypted partition?

Yeah, there was a tutorial online. Thought it was a good idea in case my laptop got stolen. Don't need to be an expert to click through an automated wizard, do I?

"rubberhose him just to be sure"

this is a real problem, yes; i find encrypted volume in swap partition actually provides better plausible deniability. "I was told it should be 2x the size of RAM," - says a guy with 512G of ram and swapoff.

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