On Thu, 18 May 2017 16:56:57 -0400, "Ted Unangst" wrote: > Another very popular use case doesn't even involve a threat. It's > very easy to repurpose a machine/disk that uses full disk encryption. > Change the key, and you've instantly wiped the disk. Personally, > this is the main reason I use and advocate everyone use disk > encryption. It's not about machines being stolen, but about machines > I plan to give away in the future.
Adding to this, it also saves you in situations where you cannot zero out the disk because of a hardware failure. A sufficiently motivated party can probably still recover the data (there are plenty of services that will do so for a fee). - todd
