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Shadow, I am a systems engineer, too. Or I should say I was one.

I ended up in storage, and saw the disk drive migrate from an electromechanical device, whose challenges were performance and reliability, into a nightmare of software “security” considerations.

I always wondered why. The disk drive should simply store encrypted data, just as any data.

There are probably many answers, but I think the primary is that people want the impossible from “security”. There is always a time factor to security. Encryption, or any security measure, can only provide a probability of security which diminishes with time. Eventually, all security is cracked.

At least that’s my take on it.