When you solve the issue, take a pause and then walk back the problem and how to fix it.
If it’s a “forgot where something was”, take a pause then start with “sorry bout that, it’s this…”.

Own the mistake, learn from it, let others learn from it. But dont waste everyone’s time

I’m sure you could mount an encrypted volume.
Or just have the keepas db on a usb stick or something

I feel like “look at twitter” is probably enough of a defence to decline president musk.
It would probably need to be wordier for court proceedings.

My experience of checksums are in things like serial where they can potentially recover a corrupt bit.
I presume in the case of encryption, a checksum is more of a hash of the raw data? Like a one-way deterministic compute. Easy to get a hash of data, extremely difficult to get data from a hash.
In which case, it’s fine. Passwords are hashed (granted, multiple times), but a cryptographically secure hash is not to be underestimated.