{"id":7661,"date":"2015-04-28T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2015-04-28T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:06:20","slug":"encrypting-your-laptop-like-you-mean-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7661","title":{"rendered":"ENCRYPTING YOUR LAPTOP LIKE YOU MEAN IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/04\/27\/encrypting-laptop-like-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\">ENCRYPTING YOUR LAPTOP LIKE YOU MEAN IT<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Time and again, people are told there is one obvious way to mitigate privacy threats of all sorts, from mass government surveillance to pervasive online tracking to cybercriminals: Encryption. As President Obama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/02\/13\/obama-theres-no-scenario-in-which-we-dont-want-really-strong-encryption\/\">put it<\/a>earlier this year, speaking in between his administration\u2019s attacks on encryption, \u201cThere\u2019s no scenario in which we don\u2019t want really strong encryption.\u201d Even after helping expose all the ways the government can get its hands on your data, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden still maintained, \u201cEncryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But how can ordinary\u00a0people get started using encryption? Encryption comes in many forms and is used at many different stages in the handling of digital information (you\u2019re using it right now, perhaps without even realizing it,\u00a0because your connection to this website is encrypted). When you\u2019re trying to protect your privacy, it\u2019s totally unclear how, exactly, to start using encryption. One obvious place to start, where the privacy benefits are high and the technical\u00a0learning curve\u00a0is low, is something called full disk encryption. Full disk encryption not only provides\u00a0the type of strong encryption Snowden and Obama reference, but it\u2019s built-in to all major operating systems, it\u2019s the only way to protect your data in case your laptop gets lost or stolen, and it takes minimal effort to get started and use.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to encrypt your hard disk\u00a0and have it truly help protect your data, you shouldn\u2019t just flip it on; you should know the basics of what disk encryption protects, what it doesn\u2019t protect, and how to avoid common mistakes that could let an attacker easily bypass your encryption.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENCRYPTING YOUR LAPTOP LIKE YOU MEAN IT Time and again, people are told there is one obvious way to mitigate privacy threats of all sorts, from mass government surveillance to pervasive online tracking to cybercriminals: Encryption. As President Obama\u00a0put itearlier this year, speaking in between his administration\u2019s attacks on encryption, \u201cThere\u2019s no scenario in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1543,5015,249,261,551,577,652],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-disk-encryption","tag-edward-snowden","tag-encryption","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}