A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Indeed. Best to think of disk encryption as protection from physical access -i.e., theft, but also accidentally recycled drives later on. It provides zero protection from somebody attacking your running system, that’s the job of the operating system and client software like web browsers. While the system is running, the drive is decrypted and unprotected.
I just prefer fde because it’s simpler. There’s no guessing about what needs to be encrypted and what doesn’t. There isn’t any human-noticiable performance impact on modern computers, so there’s not really a downside besides having 2 password prompts whenever I actually do a full reboot.