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Not worth the liability. I’d rather the landfill and peace of mind than the money

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But what liability?

That's the whole point of encrypted storage. There is no liability if you used a reasonable password.

Why not accept you have peace of mind and resell on eBay for parts?

Assuming you didn't use "password123" or something.

Every system has vulnerabilities. Plus that password I used has been in dataleaks. I don't trust it.

If you're that paranoid you cannot trust any software or hardware you haven't designed yourself

I trust the stuff I design least of all

Gotta love the "What idiot wrote this code? Oh. It was me." moments.

It will be easy to break in time. Eventually you'll just be able to use a tool that shines a laser at the right bit and breaks the rate limiting. We've already seen similar attacks on hardware wallets previously thought invulnerable.

I don't think any cryptography has stood the test of time. It's unlikely anything today will survive post-quantum.

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