Anybody know a guide or reading material on learning how to encrypt hard drives ?

    • 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      encrypting the drive mainly prevent an eventual thief from getting access to your files, including personal documents and web cookies, since system passwords does absolutely nothing against someone with access to your hard drive, and that includes paswords you may have writtend on a file that you later deleted, where as if you encrypted your drive, there is nothing you have to worry about but to buy another computer if it is stolen

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        1 year ago

        totally valid points, i’m just betting deadbeat eventual thief hasn’t got the smart on how to bypass windows passwords. It’s a gamble, but i’m willing to look into encryption based just off of that.

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      1 year ago

      Could be a hard drive of normal pirated movies and going across the border. But encrypting it would be dumb anyway.

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        Also, it’s just a normal security measure. If pirating is illegal in your country it will always be better to encrypt the incriminating material in case of a search warrant.

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          1 year ago

          You also need to make sure you don’t have a key disclosure law. Otherwise you need plausible deniability.

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          How do they know it’s pirated? If I rip my own DVD/blu-ray, put it in folders, and download subtitles. How does that look different from a completed torrent?

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            Remember that you have essentially no rights at borders. They don’t have to prove their suspicions. You have to prove innocence.

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              I mean you’re right, what I am saying is how does a digital copy of a film draw suspicion? Unless they find the actual torrent files, they have no grounds to even claim you’re doing something. I do not know of any countries outside of North Korea where content cannot be carried around digitally.

              I feel like if they singled you out to dredge your computer/hard drive that you have on you at the border. Then use that search to claim you were transporting pirated content, they likely had you in their sights before hand. The chain of events of finding say a digital movie, and them accusing you of piracy (without torrent files, just the existence of a movie/show digitally) just does not logically compute to me. Id be suspicious they were attempting to target me prior, and that was all they could find “to get something”

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            Yeah, no idea. I’ve never even thought about it because no one cares about all that in India (at least usually).