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How useful is hard drive encryption?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20262221 views
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So, let's say you have a notebook, and you encrypt the entire hard drive. Whenever you boot it's gonna ask for a password, meaning nobody can access your data without the password. On the other hand, what if your notebook got stolen whilst it was in sleep mode? Is there any protection that the encr…

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Once you're booted up the encryption key stays in memory. If they really wanted they could directly attach to the motherboard and extract the encryption key from memory. If you've encrypted your hard drive I would certainly hope you set your laptop …

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