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Treat confiscation of your devices like an attack. Any indications of where to attack next is a potential vulnerability, even if it's secured.
Is generating a long password that you can't remember and set it as a password for your device then save it inside some cloud service that you can login to later plausible?
Maybe? If an attacker has unfettered access to your device, it's only a matter of time before they get in, provided they wish to expend the resources to do so. Especially if it's confiscated.
Disk encryption exists