> He said if something goes wrong and you have it turned on, we cannot recover your data for you. Contrary to the belief of the person you spoke to, this is a

> He said if something goes wrong and you have it turned on, we cannot recover your data for you. Contrary to the belief of the person you spoke to, this is a feature of encryption, not a bug. And you are not more risk averse by leaving encryption off, you're taking a bigger risk and assuming that the hardware will fail and you'll lose everything important on disk before you are able to back it up. In this scenario, it is more likely your laptop will get lost or stolen and you will wish that the info was non-recoverable by whoever ends up owning your laptop.