I don't, I didn't do it back then and I ended up using this system for much longer than I thought I would(4+ years). I want to do it next time but I don't feel like reinstalling just for that.
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I encrypt my laptop and desktops and I think it’s worth it. I regret encrypting my servers because they need passwords to turn on. I couldn’t figure out how to handle it when away.
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I encrypt everything, with unique complex passwords, that I have a safe mnemonic system for remembering and retrieving.
Mostly I don't, but I want to start to. I only have one laptop encrypted and of course I keep my phones encrypted.
Only encrypt the home partition, for the root partition it just unnecessarily slows down the system.
Also, I think, there could be different approaches instead of encryption. AFAIK, android doesn't use encryption underneath, but uses a semi-closed bootloader (which means, if you install a different OS, all user data gets wiped). I'm currently investigating the feasibility of such an approach in the long term.
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Depends. On external drives yes. On internal boot drive no. I had performance issues and thermal issues with it so stopped on boot drives.
All my important files are on a NAS, so if someone steals my laptop, there's nothing of value there without being able to log in and mount the remote file systems
Yes. Encrypting your entire hard drive has basically been a tickbox in the Fedora installer for a long time now. No reason why I wouldn't do it. It's, easy, doesn't give me any problems and improves my devices security with defence-in-depth. No brainer.
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are you guys using the bios ssd encryption option or a software solution?
LUKS (I was assuming that's kind of implied, I don't think I ever thought of another way..)
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I have no significant private data on my disks. They can be wiped whether encrypted or not if they're stolen. And I like that in theory if my pc explodes I can recover the data with only the drive.
I do, laptops and workstations.
It's just too easy not to, and there's almost no downsides to it. (I only need to reboot, once a month or two.)
Well, unless you consider the possibility of forgetting the password a downside, so for that reason I keep the password in a password manager.
In case my laptop was stolen, there would quite a couple fewer things to worry about. Especially things like client's data which could be under NDA's, etc...
I encrypt my workstations and backups thereof on external devices. To protect against theft or a lazy state-level adversary