How an Encrypted Hard-drive Works

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SummerBreeze@monero.town⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

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There is a difference between an encrypted hard-drive and the sudo password for your Linux user. Sometimes the difference or purpose between these can be unclear to a new user. This article discusses the basics of some key concepts for security and privacy: simplifiedprivacy.com/how-an-encrypted-hard-drive…

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war@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That entire site is useless LLM spam. All the articles are old, but for some reason they're being posted here constantly lately.

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- sexy_peach@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  damn: feddit.de/u/ShadowRebel@monero.town, feddit.de/u/HappyKitten@lemmy.ml, feddit.de/u/SummerBreeze@monero.town, same name style, most posts about that simplifiedprivacy.com website. Every post has three sentences of text before posting the website.
  
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lemann@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
IMO this seems like common knowledge for the PG community?

1 post, 0 comments, joined 3d ago

If you’re karma farming, please kindly note that concept doesn’t exist on Lemmy, and you could end up being penalised for spam.

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jet@hackertalks.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption/

Covers full disc encryption from operating systems worth reading as well

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Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
One thing it should note that most Linux distros does not encrypt the boot volume

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- KiranWells@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  However, you can configure GRUB to use an encrypted boot partition, and even have detached encryption headers. It does take a bit more work, and you should make sure you know what you are doing. (e.g. losing a detached header basically means your data is all lost)
  
  wiki.archlinux.org/…/Encrypting_an_entire_system#…
  
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randombullet@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use VeraCrypt over Bitdefender since it doesn’t rely on the TPM.

I don’t have high value items on my laptop, but at least it protects my password manager and credentials.

Is there anything else I should do to harden my laptop?

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- KiranWells@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Just listing some things that I needed to do for working remotely on a personal device: have an antivirus installed, make sure Windows firewall is enabled, enable automatic updates, screensaver or lockscreen configured for 15 minutes of inactivity, and use a strong password (and a good password manager).
  
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