Out of interest, do any of you encrypt your HDDs?

[Jutnux]

Just spent a good 3/4 hours encrypting my laptop (again) whilst spamming [@]@Recursion[/@].

[Recursion]

Bitlocker, bitlocker everywhere.

[N!ck]

I did for a short period two years ago (truecrypt), but I got bored of the effort very quickly. Typing a long secure password everytime you want to access anything is hella annoying.

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/538/

[GommeInc]

Out of curious, why would anyone do this for personal use of their PC? I don't do it, and I'm not sure why anyone would unless you live in a rough area or you're a business user - but that's just me

[Jutnux]

Out of curious, why would anyone do this for personal use of their PC? I don't do it, and I'm not sure why anyone would unless you live in a rough area or you're a business user - but that's just me

Privacy, reassurance etc.

[GommeInc]

Privacy, reassurance etc.

From physical dangers like someone breaking into your house, or from some sort of access online or through a network?

[Jutnux]

From physical dangers like someone breaking into your house, or from some sort of access online or through a network?

The physical dangers of someone breaking into your house as once you've decrypted the files so you can use them a remote attack is possible (although you probably know this, I'm not insulting your intelligence).

[GommeInc]

The physical dangers of someone breaking into your house as once you've decrypted the files so you can use them a remote attack is possible (although you probably know this, I'm not insulting your intelligence).

There's no intelligence to insult, I'm genuinely intrigued I've not heard of people encrypting their HDDs who are private, home users. I only know of business individuals who do this, and the odd computer scientist/web designer

[Jutnux]

There's no intelligence to insult, I'm genuinely intrigued I've not heard of people encrypting their HDDs who are private, home users. I only know of business individuals who do this, and the odd computer scientist/web designer

I'm extremely paranoid most of the time (bad thing, heh) and I usually think of the worst possible outcome of things so I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Encrypting the HDD stops anything that I don't know about going on (coupled with the heavy security, the OS being Linux and other stuff). I also Truecrypt my memory sticks.

[Tomm]

I've got complete boot drive encryption on my laptop using Truecrypt. For my main computer I don't encrypt the boot drive as it's a fairly good SSD so I don't want to affect the performance by adding the additional overhead. However, I do encrypt any important data in a Truecrypt Container. I use a smart card (Gemalto .Net) for Windows logon (plus stuff like SSH public/private key authentication with the RSA keys generated on the card) and I use the same smart card as a security token for the Truecrypt container. The keyfile stored on the smart card, which has a limited number of PIN attempts before the card becomespermanentlyinaccessible, along with a long+complex password is used for access to the container.