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0 pointsklodolph3y ago0 comments

Because it gives you a longer period of time to learn the keys without consequences if you forget.

If you encrypt your HD, you’re suddenly in a position where forgetting your key will lose all your data. It’s like walking off a cliff and hoping you can fly.

If you start by making backups and doing test restores, there’s a period of time where you are still forced to remember the key (to do the restore), but the consequences for losing it are low.

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marginalia_nu3y ago

Yeah I don't think this would help my mother.

klodolphOP3y ago

Your mother wouldn’t benefit from backups? The idea here is that you get backups working first, because data loss is the most serious risk, and then you later consider whether you want full disk encryption once you have backups working.

Encryption is designed to make data difficult to access, so it makes sense to consider backups and encryption jointly. I don’t understand why someone would consider this controversial.

ilyt3y ago

Now you need to manage password to your backups (that you would encrypt, else why bother with encryption in the first place?) and to your encryption.

Or maybe just capitulate and admit that a bunch of kids, people and cat pictures maybe don't need to sit on encrypted storage

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