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A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensitive network connections, etc if a user is coerced into giving a threat actor a password.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2021-08-22 · latest 2022-06-15

Mentions per year 6 mentions · busiest year 2021 (3)
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  1. …not work in your favor, especially if the fact that you used a duress code becomes obvious. [0] https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28267975
  2. From someone else who shared it here: https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress So insane that something like this isn’t available natively on all of our phones
  3. Time to make plausible deniability more user-friendly. See https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress
  4. Have I got a PAM module for you: https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress
    comment by eloisius · 2021-12-15 · in BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
  5. …you see generally with the codebase. Just a request though, regardless thanks for your feedback! https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress/pull/19
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    PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations
    story by xanthine · 2021-08-22 · 343 comments