• ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org
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    1 year 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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        1 year 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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            1 year 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?

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          1 year 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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            1 year 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.