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You should use the scenario of a pair of strong, well trained soldiers physically holding you or otherwise preventing you from performing actions. So anything requiring being aware that you're being raised then doing something like triple click might not be feasible.

I think a system would need to highly tend towards false positives, giving you a short ~5 second grace period to perform some positive challenge that things are OK.

And if this means that every day you end up accidentally having to reboot and start up Tor, well small price for physical security. But really, you should be far more focused on getting your online opsec right so you don't have to worry about thugs. If they're physically grabbing you it's very likely game over.

One countermeasure would be to find people and pay them anonymously to look like you. That is, proxy through their laptop, maybe even have them do some lightweight writing or chatting. Use their life details to leak things, like about weather or other local goings on. Essentially using them as a canary. If they get tackled, you know it's time to burn everything and hide.



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