> The article doesn't say whether the disk was encrypted or not. So we can conclude that it was not. If the disk was encrypted (with decent passphrase/key) the

> The article doesn't say whether the disk was encrypted or not. So we can conclude that it was not. If the disk was encrypted (with decent passphrase/key) there is 0% chance that the article wouldn't mention it. They also wouldn't have bothered to get the disk back from the YouTuber. Why would they if the data is unreadable anyway?