Is encrypting a /home directory suggested?

[Ric Moore]

On 12/19/2011 09:02 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote:
> Again I plan to do that in the next LTS. I don't guess in this short
> period if something to the data can really happen..., would tick the
> marks for encryption in the installation of the next LTS, but now a
> days I hear people always using encryption.....

Depends on what you have on your computer. I don't have a blessed thing 
that I would care one way or the other if someone got my machine. I 
don't have banking data or credit card info stored. I don't trust the 
net, so I use my machine with that in mind. Someone would have to break 
into the house to grab it and lug it away causing a probable groin injury.

But, if I was using a laptop, and traveled with it while carrying 
personal/business financial files or official state secrets, then I 
would go for the overhead of encryption. So, it all depends on your 
particular use case. There must be some sort of system penalty, 
performance-wise, with all that encryption/decryption going on all the 
time. Since I don't use it, I can't say one way or the other. But, I 
suspect there would be some. Ric

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