Would the Pi automatically set an APIPA address if DHCP was not available? If so he need only connect the cable, and ask each machine what their address is.

KVM drawers are cool for homelab racks!

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Indeed - Meet Exciting New Alloy, playing on tour near you soon!

Some SSD drives can do a secure erase via block encryption where the key is stored on the drive itself. There is a command that simply generates a new key - Voilà your drive now contains random bits. I don’t know if newer spinning rust drives have this feature too.

I claim my new rock band name “exciting new alloy”

Does one have to supply the password at each boot with what you are describing - this sounds like the password is somewhere in the partition table. If so what do I google to learn more?

Since the disks are going to a ‘family member’ any porn at all, even the most tame, might get talked about.

Indeed - it seems that this tracking is done completely outside of the phone, asking the network where, physically, the push notification was delivered (Tower, time, and date) to locate the phone and ostensibly the owner of the phone.

If it is a hardware raid, would the boot sequence offer a raid setup choice before the OS boots?

I am not affiliated with them, but you can get a trigger file (Canary Token) from the people at Thinkst. I quickly looked around their site, and did not see how, but their adds say you can get them for free, without having to buy their canary hardware device.

That, and the fact that Spam abatement is a terrible chore. Whackamole at its worst.