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One thing in particular that bugs me about Macbooks is the fail-deadly hardware security. Disk encryption is good, yes - I use LUKS myself - but it tends to bac
by colonial 2y ago
One thing in particular that bugs me about Macbooks is the fail-deadly hardware security. Disk encryption is good, yes - I use LUKS myself - but it tends to backfire on regular consumers if done poorly. I've had to tell far too many people that their data is perma-gone from a fried Macbook motherboard. (And no, "they should have used Time Machine" is not a valid excuse for such poor design.)
Such scenarios are trivially recoverable on better-designed machines with removable storage and consumer-friendly software FDE. BitLocker does this reasonably well - yes, there are privacy concerns w.r.t. key backups, but one must strike a balance between convenience and security.
ETA: To be clear, this setup would be entirely tolerable to me, but I (and everyone else in here) is hardly an average consumer when it comes to technology.