Re: Incompetence, Ignorance or just plain stupidity?

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> Surely it's time encrypting hard drives became standard on ALL
> laptops?

Trouble is, people - at least enough people to be problematic - will
keep the encryption phrase with the laptop, either digitally or
physically.  To do this right would require entering a passphrase every
boot (and ideally every restore-from-suspend as well)...and most people
are lazy.

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