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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s largely useful on mobile devices because you can easily forget them somewhere and all a tech savvy person has to do to get the data is remove the HDD (if it’s a laptop), or if it’s integrated, reset the admin password with something like NT Offline Password Reset. Smartphones are another can of worms I won’t get into, but I’m sure you understand.

    With a desktop, it’s highly unlikely you’re carrying it around and will forget it some place. The only way someone can get the drive is to break into your residence and physically remove the drive, and as someone else said: if someone is breaking into your residence to get a HDD out of your PC, you have bigger problems.

    • xhci@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I answered this separately, but I think secure by default should apply here, too.

      I know many small businesses and non-tech people who give away or sell their desktops without wiping (or knowing that they need to). FDE would largely prevent that problem.

      I think too often we take for granted that as more tech-oriented people (making an assumption since we’re having this conversation on Lemmy), we forget that we are in the minority. We are more than capable of turning FDE off, but a lot of people aren’t capable of turning it on.