• ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org
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      11 months ago

      But with a reason, I’m sure. There’s no reason for the everyday consumer to need one, other than Microsoft wanting more control.

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        11 months ago

        Data encryption and decryption without entering a password is a pretty darn good reason.

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          11 months ago

          Sure, but does a grandmother’s Solitaire & Facebook PC really need quick encrypting and decrypting? Anyone not dealing with sensitive info doesn’t need one.

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            11 months ago

            There’s no downside to having it. There’s many downsides to not having it. This seems pretty cut and dry to me.

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              11 months ago

              There’s no downside to having it.

              Sure there are. If it gets compromised with malicious code, I have no way of removing it.

              I can protect ring 0. I can keep crap out of ring 0. If all else fails, I can nuke everything in ring 0 and boot a fresh OS installation. But I can’t do a single bleeping thing except throw out the whole machine if malware takes over ring -1.

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              11 months ago

              How would at-rest encryption make it less likely that your computer joins a botnet, or more likely that you’d notice if it did?