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Why don’t consumer laptops offer the ability to encrypt their storage drives?

Author: Chris Liu March 20, 2017 0 Comments

On my main personal machine right now, an old Dell Precision m6700, I have enabled the BitLocker drive encryption. Hard drive encryption is always the last line of defense in case of theft. However, it would make it harder for anyone… (READ MORE)

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Just how safe is your data? If you use a WD My Passport, apparently it is not very safe

Author: Chris Liu October 20, 2015 0 Comments

Recently, there was a paper published about Western Digital’s (WD) My Passport series of Hard Drives. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1002.pdf Anyways, if you read the full report, it is a great summary of the various points of vulnerability that the drive has. Basically,… (READ MORE)

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Why don’t consumer laptops offer the ability to encrypt their storage drives?

Just how safe is your data? If you use a WD My Passport, apparently it is not very safe