[Slackbuilds-users] dislocker

[Jim]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 14:21 (+0100), Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> Jim: because there is a bigger risk of data loss from encryption than from
> theft, and as i mentioned, some machines have encryption on without
> having/knowing recovery keys, so if their system does not boot for any
> reason, they have lost their data. ignoring backups which should be done
> anyway, 100% of hardware will eventually fail. even if the drive is ok, if
> the motherboard or cpu (with built in tpm) fails, without recovery keys the
> data is lost. the percentage of hardware that gets stolen is less than that.
> I have customers that don't remember their basic account logins, never-mind
> their drive encryption keys.
> I'm not saying drive encryption is bad per se, but it does increase risk of
> loss, and reduce risk of data recovery.
> - but it's somewhat offtopic for slackbuilds

Tim,

thanks for the answer.  I am with you on the "hardware failure vs. theft"
risk comparison.  But in your message when you said
  "I should comment that I also don't use bitlocker personally (horrible idea),"
I (evidently incorrectly) got the idea that you didn't like the idea of
using dislocker and friends to deal with bitlocker.

FWIW: In my case, when I bought this laptop it was set up like that.  I
guess I could have reinstalled windows (or just wiped it) when I
partitioned for Linux, but I didn't want the manufacturer to be able to
throw a hissy fit (because their beloved windows wasn't like how they set
it up) if/when I needed warranty support.

Cheers.
                                Jim