• devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If you suspend the laptop when moving locations instead of shutting down or hibernating to disk then disk encryption is useless.

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      4 months ago

      Most operating systems will require your desktop password upon resume, and most thieves are low-functioning drug users who are not about to go Hacker Man on your laptop. They will most likely just wipe the system and install something else; if they can even figure that out.