Security notes - security for the everyday person: Difference between revisions

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 This is easier to do on servers, though (where it is more obvious what to isolate, and being a little draconian is understandable) -- and not on workstations, where we expect we can do everything to everything.
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-==Is it important to encrypt my PC?==
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-tl;dr:
-: if you think it'll get stolen for the data on it, yes.
-: if you think targeted theft is likely (based on who you are and what you have), yes, do it.
-: if you like peace of mind, yes
-: yet practically
-:: people don't generally take their PCs anywhere - LAN parties happen less than since the late nineties
-:: even theft by non-interested people is not too much threat. Yes, they could poke around, but chances are that they or the next owner will just format them.
-: keep in mind that encrypted devices does not do much against law enforcement,
-:: in that in a lot of places, you are more or less ''required'' to give them access somehow, and your refusal will have implications.
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