Do you use hard drive encryption?

I've used bitlocker for years now and I've never noticed the overhead, both on hard drives or on SSD. I see absolutely no reason not to use it.

koolpc said:
What if the encryption fails and you cant access your files or content etc?
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You restore your backup. :> (Yes that is the **** eating grin emoji :p).
 
koolpc said:
What if the encryption fails and you cant access your files or content etc?
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Disable TPM if you use Bitlocker or just use something like Veracrypt. The encryption itself can't really fail, it's mathematics. There's a bigger performance hit with Veracrypt but it's unlikely you'd notice anything in real world use, only on the benchmarks.

Be careful not to forget the password though, if the police ever ask for it and you don't remember you can be sent to prison indefinitely. Veracrypt has feature called hidden volumes where it creates a hidden encrypted volume within an encrypted outer volume, and it's impossible to prove that the hidden volume exists. I'd suggest using that with a really simple outer volume password that you'll definitely remember.
 
koolpc said:
What if the backups are corrupted! Lol
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Well it's a bad day for me... the backups are encrypted (but in a different way) also ;).

But in reality - I use restic and run an automated full check on the backup once a week, I'd need to be quite unlucky I think.

Not saying it couldn't happen though :D.
 
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