Comment by acdha

3 hours ago

Anyone with physical access, significant tools, and experience. The FBI has people who can pull data out of memory after freezing the RAM but the average laptop thief doesn’t so how serious this is depends significantly on your threat model. If you’re not a major criminal, bitcoin whale, or intelligence target this is almost certainly academic.

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bluebarbet  14 minutes ago

While that is true, the fact is that encryption is technically useless for anyone who is not constantly powering off and on, which is surely a bunch of people. That this is not widely understood is IMO a problem. And excellent reason for Debian's feature.

deng  3 hours ago

> If you’re not a major criminal, bitcoin whale, or intelligence target this is almost certainly academic.

Thanks, that's what I thought.