View Full Version : Hard drive encryption Why?
duzawe
08-28-2009, 09:13 PM
I have often been told that encrypting my hard drive is a must, How ever I keep no sensitve material on my hard drive just the norm for an 18 year old, video games,movies,pics the norm. I dont use a normal credit card I use a service that gives me a unquie visa number for each Transacton I make. I keep my os and apps patched I use anti-mal ware and anti-viurs programs.
I just want to pose the question will it matter if I encrypt my drive.
Oh and I have a boot password on my machien.
davmoo
08-28-2009, 10:25 PM
If you don't feel like you have anything on your computer that needs protecting, then you're right, there is no good reason for you to encrypt. If you don't need a left-handed jackhammer, why buy one? Encryption works the same way.
duzawe
08-29-2009, 12:21 AM
If you don't feel like you have anything on your computer that needs protecting, then you're right, there is no good reason for you to encrypt. If you don't need a left-handed jackhammer, why buy one? Encryption works the same way.
Thank you
fishtoprecords
08-31-2009, 06:01 PM
the "if you don't have anything sensitive" line is true, with some cravats.
The first is that sensitive is all relative. passwords to sites can be as sensitive as keeping financial data. You may decide next month to keep your checking and tax data on the computer, rather than on crumpled paper in your sock drawer. You may have political arguments that become unpopular. (Today's NY Times has an editorial that points out that Richard Nixon's health care proposal was more "liberal" than today's Democratic party position).
Second, if only people who have something to hide use protection, then the mere fact that someone uses protection means that they are suspect. Its much better if everyone uses encryption, so that the bad guys can't tell if you have something to hide just by the existence of crypto software.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that they are not out to get you.
judaz
09-01-2009, 01:52 PM
It is not so much what you can do with your infomation, mainly personal information, as what others might be able to do with it.
Things you dont feel is so important someone else might be able to use in an illegal or inapropriate way....in your name.
...but if you know and feel there is absolutly nothing in you computer you feel a need to protect... .. then of course ..there is no point.