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Encrypting mass storage

Encrypting mass storage

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Encrypting mass storage

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- I love my little laptop. It's absolutely fantastic, it's powerful, it does what I need it to do. Unfortunately, it's an incredibly portable device, and I'm notorious for leaving this at the back of Ubers and at people's kitchen tables and on trains and on airplanes. And that's a bit of a problem because I've got company secrets on here and I need to protect them. So in this episode, what I want to talk about is the concept of encryption. Now, what I'm talking about here, when I say encryption, I'm talking about encrypting the storage devices that we have on our systems. So for me, there's really two storage devices I'm going to worry about right now. I've got the built-in SSD, that's got my Windows and some storage there, and I've got that in two partitions, and I've also got a thumb drive with me. So for me, what I want to do is go through the process of encrypting these, so if I'm not around, then other people can't read it. Now, when we talk about how encryption works, there are…

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