On Oct 05, 2025, Greg wrote:
On 2025-10-05, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:The stuff I want to specially protect will likely be in e-mail and jabber=conversations contents, and situations when someone is forgetting to encry pt them are not rare. I mean mostly received e-mails or friends who misconf igure their Jabber clients. Disk encryption won't do much to this.Why not?
Because encryption "on your hard drive" doesn't affect non-encrypted jabber conversations, or emails you sent to someone else.
I want to protect against burglary and (most probable) against unwanted access to disk contents when I give my hardware to the service to repair it. I'm also doing torrenting (I personally don't like copyright law and suppo rt copyleft related movements) and want to protect also against seizing har dware by police (never happened in my home but not impossible).*THIS* is exactly the scenario disk encryption will help you with, and nothing else. Assuming you're able to shut down before seizure. If someone gets your hardware in an "up and running" state, they still might get around, if they know what they are doing.Any kind encryption is vulnerable to that, isn't it?
"Yes, but" you have to be realistic here about the amount of time an opportunistic thief is going to spend trying to get at your data. They tend to care more about the resale (pawning off, whatever) of the hardware, more than "your data" specifically.
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