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Seriously...the only stuff I would even care about encrypting are SS/credit card/bank info. That's not a lot of data. I don't see why you need to encrypt everything if you have nothing to hide?
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Seriously...the only stuff I would even care about encrypting are SS/credit card/bank info. That's not a lot of data. I don't see why you need to encrypt everything if you have nothing to hide?
I dont understand why more people dont use encryption. If you use True Crypt and encrypt the entire drive from the day you bought the thing, then no one can access the drive and you never need to worry about overwriting the data. True Crypt uses 256-bit encryption and with a 20+ digit password consisting of a verity of characters, special charterers and numbers, there is not enough computing power in the world to crack the encryption in any reasonable amount of time and if you encrypt the drive from the beginning, the only data that will ever have resided on the drive will have been encrypted, so there is nothing to find.
I gots to wonder how much money is really made on paranoia each year? Between this thread and the silly lifelock ad I just saw there has to be big money into the fears. Honestly I would not worry about it unless you have something really good to hide then use what the old hackers used to call "The Panic Button"
for that small amount of data put it on a usb pin drive and just safeguard that, use it only when you need to and keep it out of your machine when you aren't using it. I guess my life is boring because anyone watching me will be bored to death, I know because the old lady fell asleep on the couch watching me
But for the home user? For the typical user on these forums, the majority of their data is probably their music collection, family photos, a few games, maybe some Adobe Creative Suite programs, etc. Encrypting all that data just seems like a waste.
I'm sure people use their pc for work, yes. But the general population of people here are pretty young for the vast majority so I can't imagine there is a lot of consulting going on with overcooked pcs. If you need information on your pc, overclocking it isn't the best idea. So yeah, I would call it rare here that people 'consult' with their overcooked gaming machine, yes.
For the most part, people don't need to encrypt anything outside of personal data... I liken this to your ecc memory stance as well. Most don't remotely need to do either of these things for a stable, secure computing experience.
Perhaps you have been living under a rock. How many instances have laptops been lost or stolen with lots of personal info on them? How many medical records or court records have been lost? A company that shall remain nameless backed up a whole lot of data on tapes to be stored offsite. The courier lost the tapes. The company had to pay for privacy guard for everyone who had records on the tapes. This happens over and over again. In almost every state. To many, many companies and institutions. If the data was encrypted by trucrypt or some other means, then it would be 'woops we lost a few thousand dollars of iT equipment', not 'woops we lost lots of PII (personally identifiable information) and now we have to report it and pay lots of money'.
Just yesterday, a small company called Apple reported being breached. They said things like credit card numbers and passwords were encrypted, but lots of PII was unencrypted. If only they had encrypted everything... I bet they wish they had.
A few months ago another small company called Sony was repeatedly breached and lots of stuff including passwords were captured.
If your SSD is encrypted and lost/stolen, then you need a new copy of the data and a few hundred hard drive. All your private stuff will be protected.