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Comment on Why do modern phones have device encryption on by default, but computers do not? Why doesn't computers also get encryption on by default?

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Windows does it since 11, macOS has done it for a while now, and Linux has provided the option on most distros for a few years as well.

If you’ve upgraded Windows to Windows 11 and don’t have encryption enabled, you can enable it after the fact without reinstalling your OS. On Linux this is harder to accomplish.

Windows 10 locked encryption behind a pro license, but computers haven’t been sold with Windows 10 installations for a few years now.

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Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The encryption can be used for bad things too. Windows 11 itself has so many things just straight up bad. Spyware, Telemetry and instability of some “older” apps aka apps from windows 10.

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- skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t understand. How do you use full-disk encryption for bad things? Are you talking about the pedophile/terrorist angle that governments take on it?
  
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  - Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Rather to encrypt other non windows conform drives.
    
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