Use of encryption on personal pcs

[anon92996653]

Yeah that's why I got all LOUD with the unopened/unused. I can see drives that have had medical records, SIN/SS or anything else sensitive getting the grinder but the govt nukes...UNOPENED UNUSED drives too heh. So much waste that would be 100% safe for release to schools, hospitals, provincial resources. Just staggering. I mean we're here talking about should you encrypt for protection and we got organizations out here "protecting" empty drives with trash compactors hehe.

[tbg]

@dalto

There is all kinds of data on your device that an attacker can use. Cached data in your browser or old temp files, left over tokens, compromising less secure accounts to use to attack your more secure accounts, etc, etc.

If an attacker who knows what they are doing gets a hold of an unencrypted device, there are a host of things they can do.

About this you are correct. However, I wrote a service to flush this data on suspend or shutdown, so that issue can be resolved without resorting to full disk encryption IMO.