“Like an increasing number of people who care about the security and integrity of their data, I have encrypted all my hard-drives – the ones in my laptops and the backup drives, using 128-bit AES – the Advanced Encryption Standard. Without the passphrase that unlocks my key, the data on those drives is unrecoverable, barring major, seismic advances in quantum computing, or a fundamental revolution in computing. Once your data is cryptographically secured, all the computers on earth, working in unison, could not recover it on anything less than a geological timescale.”
Tales from the encrypt: the secrets of data protection | Technology | guardian.co.uk
A friend of mine recently had her laptop stolen. My laptop is pretty much a stay at home machine these days, so I’m less concerned about being parted with it on the street, but I’m still more and more interested in encrypting my data, just to be safe. Sounds like a very good move…
