> any accident requiring recovery of my data is also probably going to lose the encryption key. ... why? i'd hate encrypting too if I threw away all best-prac

> any accident requiring recovery of my data is also probably going to lose the encryption key. ... why? i'd hate encrypting too if I threw away all best-practices regarding it -- losing a key with the failed system is a "problem exists between chair and keyboard" type of issue. Encryption protects your data from yourself, from your adversaries, from serendipitous grey-moral types, and from the prying eyes of over-zealous data-collection conglomerates. You seem experienced in the field, so I won't presume what your best practices are -- but to be enthusiastic against encryption is a form of cheer-leading that I think I cannot ethically support; the longer I live and the more pervasive companies get to be with their data collection policies then the more powerful and required tools like encryption seem to become.