a lot of the talk about encryption these days centers around securing things like
internet connections and passwords on a server somewhere and it makes sense
considering how much data is constantly being tossed around online but let's say
that you've done everything you can to hide your online activity using a VPN
making up a 20 character freaking password for your social media accounts
and overwriting your browser cache what if despite all of this someone just
walks off with your hard drive computer or breaks in while you're out of the
house and starts trying to get into your stuff this is where an equally important
kind of encryption can really help you it's called whole Drive encryption or
full dis encryption and just like the name says the idea is to encrypt your
whole drive so a thief can't just access
all of your private data if they walk off with it but how does this work many
full dis encryption methods such as Windows bit Locker try to give you a
fairly transparent experience when you're actually using the computer to do
this all of the data on your drive is encrypted and the next time you boot up
your computer you'll be presented with a special preboot environment that will
ask you for an encryption key this could be something as simple as a password or
a key stored on a physical drive like a USB stick if you'd rather go that route
after you supply the appropriate credentials your hard drive will be
decrypted and you'll be able to carry on business as usual of course if someone
steals your hard drive and your encryption key isn't terribly strong it
might not be too hard for some miscreant to crack it so many users who use full
dis encryption add another layer of protection through a trusted platform
module or TPM this is an addin chip
found on some motherboards and even if you don't have one many modern
motherboards including lower cost ones have TPM headers so you can just buy one
for not a lot of money and in install it yourself what a TPM does is generate
encryption keys and stores them at least in part on the module itself instead of
just the hard drive TPMS can also detect tampering attempts so if someone steals
your hard drive out of your computer and
tries to put it in their own it won't work and speaking of tampering TPMS can
additionally tell if someone has injected malicious code like a root kit
which you can learn about up here into your boot sector which often can't be
encrypto by full drive encryption schemes this way it can lock down the
system and help you recover it later without exposing it to rootkit malware
some people even take this a step farther and buy Hardware encrypted
drives that have a built-in chip that can encrypt the entire enchilada
including your boot sector but despite all these ways to secure your drive they
don't really do much at all to keep your data safe once your computer is up and
running remember how I said it decrypts your entire higher Drive instead many
people who are serious about security especially if they have to leave their
computers on 24/7 for whatever reason use some sort of file system level
encryption that can encrypt and decrypt individual files on demand very useful
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