I use bitlocker on my laptop and my portable backup usb stick. I have no illusion that it's probably back doored but I continue to use it simply as a casual ins

I use bitlocker on my laptop and my portable backup usb stick. I have no illusion that it's probably back doored but I continue to use it simply as a casual insurance policy against doing something stupid like leaving the storage device on a train. It's most likely beyond the average man to decrypt my data and that's good enough for me. Applying the grey man principle, hiding in plain sight by blending into the crowd is a good approach. If you have something to hide, do it via a side channel, preferably off line and carry on using what everyone else does for everything else.