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Re: [LUG] Encryption was Re: Disk Wiping

 

Thank you Simon. I clearly live in a rarefied atmosphere and I'd agree I know very little about the average computer user. I never quite got the hang of writing readable documentation either.

My warped perspective was focused more on low-power hardware and core temperatures. I've seen Bitlocker slap a 30° penalty on under-resourced holiday video editing, for example. I gaily encrypt my hard drive because all I ever do is coding and email and the occasional brief foray onto YouTube, my disk monitor widget is boringly flatlined most of the time.

Axing drives should be made criminal. The whole notion of so-called Data Protection is arse-about-face, data should be protected by law. Maybe in another ten years there will be adequate rights for AI systems.


On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 18:39, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:07:18 GMT John PNZ wrote:
>
> I think, comrade, that some people rely on physical barriers for data
> protection rather than adopting encryption at rest, but that they prefer to
> wipe before giving a drive to another user. That seems a supportable
> concept.

My experience, and I've looked at a lot of companies who should encrypt their
disks, strongly suggests most people don't know how to encrypt their disks
(Macs), or got the Home Edition of Windows when setting it up isn't supported.

They also don't know why they need to encrypt their disks!!!!

Also a lot believe that because they enter a password when they login, surely
the vendors protect their documents using that?! Which is true for iPhones,
and Chromebooks, and some models of Android.....

Go ask a few non-technical friends about how difficult it is to access their
files if someone steals their computer and see what they say.

I don't think our Comrade is saying rely entirely on encryption and never
wipe, just that he is much more relaxed about procedures for wiping the disks
because even if he does it wrongly, or forgets, without the password the
contents are still protected. So he's not feeling the need to axe any disks,
even if his threat model is more extreme for work data.

 Simon




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