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I F*cked up and I need help.
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There needs to be some mechanism to recover your machine should this happen. It's not that much more difficult to do it on a windows machine either.
The truth of the matter is is if somebody has physical access to your machine it's not your machine anymore. They can pull out the hard drive and plug it into a machine that they have a password for and read from it if it's not encrypted. So on and so forth.
Which is why you never throw away a computer with the drives in it and you never throw drives away without physically destroying them. Don't give other people the chance to see your weird shit.