Something unbelievable just happened, haha. Things that often feel hopeless come around in the most unexpected way. You will try harder and harder to crack something, but you will fail a thousand times on this, but suddenly, one unexpected hit will make it open, which will feel like a magical occurrence.
Around 2022, I was first introduced to the security field specifically. So in the early days, everywhere I was poking was a security mindset. So, one day, I was storing all my personal data on my pendrive, I had zipped it into a password-protected file, almost 30GB of data. Seeing the importance of the data, I had set up a super complex password, a total of 18-character alphanumeric password with special characters. Three years passed, and I was never in need to open that stuff. Recently, due to a need, I sat down to explore that data, and guess what, I forgot the password. I clearly remember the possible combinations or common passwords I usually set. Even I had a notepad where I usually write down the passwords, that too in a zibberish way so no one else can get that and access everything easily, too many security concerns. lol. So I tried each and every password I could have ever come up with, and every one of them was incorrect.
Can you imagine the loss? It wasn't any random files and stuff, personal data for which I specifically purchased a pendrive and was storing, and ended up forgetting the password. I was sad and laughing at the same time. It was around February or March when I tried to access the data.
Now, its 4.21 AM at the time of my writing this blog post. During 3.30 AM, suddenly I came across that pendrive, inserted in my laptop. Here we go again, a password prompt to access the stuff. Just a couple of hours ago, I took a strong cup of tea with coffee. So, I just guessed a different set of passwords depending on a few things from 2023 when I was backing up my data. And guess what, boom! I got access. It wasn't any normal pass, a proper strong pass, just a few random stuff that I had kept as a pattern, and out of nowhere it came to my mind today, and I just got the access.
Come on, I wasn't intended today for this, nor did I have any clue, or restored from any written place. Sudden encounter, sudden guesses, and boom. The most unexpected way to crack this one. Hahaha, funny stuff. Never will I keep such important stuff without documenting.
Time to sleep now....
