Mostly I don't, but I want to start to. I only have one laptop encrypted and of course I keep my phones encrypted.
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Of course, I'm paranoid and don't trust the US government. Or any government really. "First they came for _____" and all that; Id rather just tell them to pound sand immediately instead of get caught with my pants down.
Yes because it is one click
If I delete my drive, it is rubbish
It doesnt impact my performance much
I encrypt my home folder and Windows install just in case someone breaks into my house and steals my computer. Super annoying entering my password each boot though.
I always encrypt my computer SSD as well as my external backup drive. I just wish that when installing a Linux distro and when selecting encryption that it would work with multiple drives
are you guys using the bios ssd encryption option or a software solution?
LUKS (I was assuming that's kind of implied, I don't think I ever thought of another way..)
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Yeah all my drives are encrypted with LUKS mostly because of home burglaries (bad area and whatnot). I still keep backups regardless on drives that are also encrypted
No need as none of them are networked
Do you physically crush and grind your drives once they are end-of-life?
Absolutely. LUKS full disk encryption. Comes as an opt-in checkbox on Ubuntu, for example.
And I too cannot understand why this is not opt-out rather than opt-in. Apparently we've decided that only normies on corporate spyware OSs need security, and we don't.
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Only encrypt the home partition, for the root partition it just unnecessarily slows down the system.
Also, I think, there could be different approaches instead of encryption. AFAIK, android doesn't use encryption underneath, but uses a semi-closed bootloader (which means, if you install a different OS, all user data gets wiped). I'm currently investigating the feasibility of such an approach in the long term.
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Depends. On external drives yes. On internal boot drive no. I had performance issues and thermal issues with it so stopped on boot drives.
All my important files are on a NAS, so if someone steals my laptop, there's nothing of value there without being able to log in and mount the remote file systems