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"I have always thought that the only reason you would need full disk encryption on a computer is if you was doing something illegal." Did you even read the art

"I have always thought that the only reason you would need full disk encryption on a computer is if you was doing something illegal." Did you even read the article? It mentions several legitimate reasons why you would need to use encryption for perfectly legal reasons. It still surprises me hear people who are intelligent enough to use the Internet come out with the, "if you've nothing to hide" argument. EDIT: The information I claimed was in the linked article, was actually in the whitepaper, linked to from the article. I will quote the relevant passage below. It amazes me that anyone would not be able to come to this conclusion independently though: "For doctors, lawyers, and many business professionals, these border searches can compromise the privacy of sensitive professional information, including trade secrets, attorney- client and doctor-patient communications, research and business strategies, some of which a traveler has legal and contractual obligations to protect. For the rest of us, searches that can reach our personal correspondence, health information, and financial records are reasonably viewed as an affront to privacy and dignity and inconsistent with the values of a free society."

goblin89 15y ago
Not to argue with your points (business data is sensitive stuff), but another link from the article leads to this: > For maximum security make sure you are alone and close the curtains. Write on a hard surface - not on a pad of paper. After you memorize your passphrase, burn your notes, pulverize the ashes and flush them down the toilet. That is quite a paranoid's hell. =) Full-disk encryption may just provide false sense of safety, as we store lots of data in the cloud, where even strong passwords do not guarantee that nobody will get access to the data. IMO for one to be 100% sure that nothing could go wrong one should not store anything anywhere.
- icebraining 15y ago
  Full-disk encryption may just provide false sense of safety, as we store lots of data in the cloud, where even strong passwords do not guarantee that nobody will get access to the data. You can store an encrypted file "in the cloud", though. A truecrypt volume with a keyfile should be essentially uncrackable. Of course, then you can only use the service as a dumb data storage.

goblin89 15y ago

Not to argue with your points (business data is sensitive stuff), but another link from the article leads to this: > For maximum security make sure you are alone and close the curtains. Write on a hard surface - not on a pad of paper. After you memorize your passphrase, burn your notes, pulverize the ashes and flush them down the toilet. That is quite a paranoid's hell. =) Full-disk encryption may just provide false sense of safety, as we store lots of data in the cloud, where even strong passwords do not guarantee that nobody will get access to the data. IMO for one to be 100% sure that nothing could go wrong one should not store anything anywhere.

icebraining 15y ago
Full-disk encryption may just provide false sense of safety, as we store lots of data in the cloud, where even strong passwords do not guarantee that nobody will get access to the data. You can store an encrypted file "in the cloud", though. A truecrypt volume with a keyfile should be essentially uncrackable. Of course, then you can only use the service as a dumb data storage.