From: SimonJ@eu.invalid   
      
   On 2024-07-02, AJL wrote:   
   > On 7/2/2024 7:54 AM, Andrew wrote:   
   >   
   >> (I never understood why people set a password on a home computer.)   
   >   
   > Here in the big city home burglaries happen. My neighbor lost all his   
   > electronics in one. A home computer's passwords (pins in my case) are   
   > all that stand between my data and the perp. Granted most stolen   
   > electronics are likely wiped before resale but still one never knows...   
      
   Yep, if you ever had a laptop stolen and have to go through worrying about and   
   changing passwords you would have full disk encryption. If this is stolen I   
   lose   
   the machine but I don't have to worry about the data.   
      
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   Simon   
      
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