You Need To Encrypt Your Drives! (Seriously) - Techlore
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Date: 2022-04-15
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1) The absolute best thing you can do to combat this problem is by spreading the message. Make sure to share this video with all of your friends! Odds are they have no idea this is possible and think that a basic login password is enough. Protect your friends and family -
2) I am fully aware the both FileVault and BitLocker use proprietary encryption which most likely has backdoors by the company and/or the government. A) Having ANY encryption is still infinitely better than having nothing, B) These are the absolutely simplest ways to encrypt your computer and C) If you want genuinely good open encryption, consider using Veracrypt or a PGP drive encryption tool, although they are a bit trickier to setup.
3) Macs only mount in read-only, so you aren't able to copy files to a Mac computer or modify the Mac files. But you still have the capability of viewing them and copying them to another computer. still a huge risk!
4) Like the video says, adding a password to modify the boot priority and/or access the BIOS at all is an excellent security precaution, but it won't help you at all from someone who physically removes the drive from your computer.
5) A huge security benefit is if your laptop is ever lost or stolen, you know your data is safe: ) Loading viruses and keyloggers are very sophistacted and quite honestly uncommon. Simple data robbery is the main attack we're avoiding.
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Additional Notes:
1) The absolute best thing you can do to combat this problem is by spreading the message. Make sure to share this video with all of your friends! Odds are they have no idea this is possible and think that a basic login password is enough. Protect your friends and family -
2) I am fully aware the both FileVault and BitLocker use proprietary encryption which most likely has backdoors by the company and/or the government. A) Having ANY encryption is still infinitely better than having nothing, B) These are the absolutely simplest ways to encrypt your computer and C) If you want genuinely good open encryption, consider using Veracrypt or a PGP drive encryption tool, although they are a bit trickier to setup.
3) Macs only mount in read-only, so you aren't able to copy files to a Mac computer or modify the Mac files. But you still have the capability of viewing them and copying them to another computer. still a huge risk!
4) Like the video says, adding a password to modify the boot priority and/or access the BIOS at all is an excellent security precaution, but it won't help you at all from someone who physically removes the drive from your computer.
5) A huge security benefit is if your laptop is ever lost or stolen, you know your data is safe: ) Loading viruses and keyloggers are very sophistacted and quite honestly uncommon. Simple data robbery is the main attack we're avoiding.
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Lukas
btw: Windows 10, even the home edition, includes a -disk encryption- feature which will be available in the settings if your device uses a TPM (modern processors can actually have a TPM integrated into the CPU, at least that's the case with my Ryzen and modern laptops usually have some sort of TPM too) and has said TPM activated together with secure boot. Modern laptops often have all of this enabled and might even have the disk encryption feature activated by default.
Of course, VeraCrypt is more secure, simply because it's opensource but also a lot more, but disk encryption has the advantage of being easy to use, literally one click on one button on the settings and that's it, no restart required and it does not need the user to remember a strong password and type it in on every boot so it is a lot better for -non tech savvy people- as it's easy and painless.
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btw: Windows 10, even the home edition, includes a -disk encryption- feature which will be available in the settings if your device uses a TPM (modern processors can actually have a TPM integrated into the CPU, at least that's the case with my Ryzen and modern laptops usually have some sort of TPM too) and has said TPM activated together with secure boot. Modern laptops often have all of this enabled and might even have the disk encryption feature activated by default.
Of course, VeraCrypt is more secure, simply because it's opensource but also a lot more, but disk encryption has the advantage of being easy to use, literally one click on one button on the settings and that's it, no restart required and it does not need the user to remember a strong password and type it in on every boot so it is a lot better for -non tech savvy people- as it's easy and painless.
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ejonesss
the framing part i doubt would work very well unless you have a police department that does not have access to the advanced forensics lab.
most of the really bad stuff that can get someone put in jail like c/sam a halfway forensics department will be able to read the meta data of the files and will see someone from the outside put it there to set you up.
it is far easier to swat someone as it is a popular thing to do as a result of being in live streaming but even then many police departments are learning what swatting is and is working with the 911 dispatch centers to trace the false alarms.
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the framing part i doubt would work very well unless you have a police department that does not have access to the advanced forensics lab.
most of the really bad stuff that can get someone put in jail like c/sam a halfway forensics department will be able to read the meta data of the files and will see someone from the outside put it there to set you up.
it is far easier to swat someone as it is a popular thing to do as a result of being in live streaming but even then many police departments are learning what swatting is and is working with the 911 dispatch centers to trace the false alarms.
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Na
Knock on wood, i've never ever encrypted my drives and i still have all my data here today. I call that fear for some, but good for others.
Often its always a mixed bag. we believe, then it's passed around like a bloody virus. I'm not suggesting no one encrypts, but I am saying people should think what there storing on it first. it may be a waste of time.
i. e everything gets stored on my usb drive, which is encrypted, but probably doesn't need to be since i always have it with me. It's the first ting i take everywhere.
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Knock on wood, i've never ever encrypted my drives and i still have all my data here today. I call that fear for some, but good for others.
Often its always a mixed bag. we believe, then it's passed around like a bloody virus. I'm not suggesting no one encrypts, but I am saying people should think what there storing on it first. it may be a waste of time.
i. e everything gets stored on my usb drive, which is encrypted, but probably doesn't need to be since i always have it with me. It's the first ting i take everywhere.
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Mario
Hacker plan a virus, keylogger etc to your unencrypted computer is only true if they have physical access to your computer. The problem is most of the virus came from the internet. Clicking suspicious link, download suspicious attachment from email. Download crack/illegally software. Visiting website you should not etc. These kind of things encryptions don't protect.
Encryption is useful, but it should be combined with another security measures.
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Hacker plan a virus, keylogger etc to your unencrypted computer is only true if they have physical access to your computer. The problem is most of the virus came from the internet. Clicking suspicious link, download suspicious attachment from email. Download crack/illegally software. Visiting website you should not etc. These kind of things encryptions don't protect.
Encryption is useful, but it should be combined with another security measures.
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unguidedone
you also need to explain how cold boot attacks can happen to booted and how it effects encrypted computers. Just because its encrypted DOES NOT MEAN ITS SAFE. ya i needed to use caps for that. Want a totally safe computer? POWER DOWN the computer with the keys / have encrypted memory / securely overwrite memory / use a tpm / use very strong keys. Ok totally safe does not exist it just reduces your odds of human error.
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you also need to explain how cold boot attacks can happen to booted and how it effects encrypted computers. Just because its encrypted DOES NOT MEAN ITS SAFE. ya i needed to use caps for that. Want a totally safe computer? POWER DOWN the computer with the keys / have encrypted memory / securely overwrite memory / use a tpm / use very strong keys. Ok totally safe does not exist it just reduces your odds of human error.
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bennypr0fane
One very real risk to your data is also lost passwords, permanently locking yourself out of your device, with no one to reset the password for you. If you're gonna advise people to encrypt their hardware, this advice should come with proper warnings about recovery options in case of forgotten/lost passwords, and how to make sure to prevent these very, very common problems in the first place.
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One very real risk to your data is also lost passwords, permanently locking yourself out of your device, with no one to reset the password for you. If you're gonna advise people to encrypt their hardware, this advice should come with proper warnings about recovery options in case of forgotten/lost passwords, and how to make sure to prevent these very, very common problems in the first place.
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justanotherpxrson
if i did this, would I still be able to manage files across multiple operating systems? im thinking about switching to linux and this video was thrown in my recommended. more headache to think about for me right now. this just proves how ignorant I am with technology. i have so much to learn and dont know where to start.
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if i did this, would I still be able to manage files across multiple operating systems? im thinking about switching to linux and this video was thrown in my recommended. more headache to think about for me right now. this just proves how ignorant I am with technology. i have so much to learn and dont know where to start.
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Administrator
0: 36: -. encryption, Bill? --, actually. Punctuation, dude. -
Hey -- by the way; why can't you just install Windows 10 Pro? All you need is a cheap key that you can buy online. -
Windows 10 Pro is the best version of Windows every one should have in the first place. Getting it should not be a problem these days.
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0: 36: -. encryption, Bill? --, actually. Punctuation, dude. -
Hey -- by the way; why can't you just install Windows 10 Pro? All you need is a cheap key that you can buy online. -
Windows 10 Pro is the best version of Windows every one should have in the first place. Getting it should not be a problem these days.
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woody-cool
Here's the thing, my desktop PC is under lock and key, in a secured home, nobody visits me, I don't let ANYBODY in, so unless they break in (which is difficult being a top floor flat/apartment) then they're more likely to steal the whole PC rather than just mess with the data.
Now, my laptop, that's encrypted.
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Here's the thing, my desktop PC is under lock and key, in a secured home, nobody visits me, I don't let ANYBODY in, so unless they break in (which is difficult being a top floor flat/apartment) then they're more likely to steal the whole PC rather than just mess with the data.
Now, my laptop, that's encrypted.
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