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I mean, probably should be. But for me, no. Well, not my personal computer anyway. That's a mistake, I know. But corporate computer yes.

So no, I don't think "in this day and age" necessarily. And I believe that the vast majority of "normal" users don't do full drive encryption either. But yes, we should.



Last I looked, windows and Mac installs both push the user to set up bitlocker or FileVault, respectively. You have to actively say no if you don’t want it.




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