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To: roamer_1
You obviously don’t repair computers for Joe User.

Nope. I also don't want encrypted bits to stand out.

These days just about everyone with an iPhone has a fully encrypted device that the seem to have no problem using and managing on a daily basis. I guess some companies aren't up to the challenge. 

If someone else has control of your keys, your device effectively isn't encrypted.

I've been using crypto since PGP2.1. I don't seem to have issues with it.

35 posted on 12/29/2015 2:29:30 PM PST by zeugma (Last time I was sober, man I felt bad. Worst hangover I've ever had.)
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To: zeugma
These days just about everyone with an iPhone has a fully encrypted device that the seem to have no problem using and managing on a daily basis.

Right... because all of their data is automatically pumped up to Apple's servers. Android offers a similar thing. Imagine my surprise when my 'droid tablet needed a reload and all of my crap showed back up on it a couple days later.

If all your data is backed up to someone else's server, that is in fact, no different than giving them the dang keys anyhoo.

Most users do not have a propensity toward backup (part of why it's becoming automatic on phones), and since I kind of specialize in soft recovery of hard drives, I get a whole bunch of desperate people trying to get their crap back from a damaged and failing drive - I can tell you from experience that even with encryption keys, my chances of getting anything off of a damaged and encrypted drive hover on the negative side of 0%.

Again, unless you know what you are doing - DON'T encrypt. Unless you have at least two chains of backup to unencrypted devices, off the primary machine, DON'T encrypt.

36 posted on 12/29/2015 3:21:55 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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