Question How safe is my external drive from being cracked?

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I carry a Samsung T7 drive with me just about everywhere. If I were to drop it I wonder what the likelihood is that it could be cracked. I've seen recent articles giving those lists of how many characters, and varying complexity tiers and how many minutes or millions of years it would take to brute force each one.

So if I have an excessively long password with numbers/upper/lower/special characters I assume it would be pretty bulletproof if someone got a hold of it correct?
Or am I woefully underestimating what someone can do with a physical drive in hand encrypted or not?

 

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If I were to drop it I wonder what the likelihood is that it could be cracked.

Depends on the height you dropped it from 😀

Decryption times depends on the encryption method. If you are using AES-256 and a 'long' password, it should be 1000s of years to brute force it.

 

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Depends on the height you dropped it from 😀

Decryption times depends on the encryption method. If you are using AES-256 and a 'long' password, it should be 1000s of years to brute force it.

Ayyoooo lol

Good to know. I feel pretty confident about that then.