Comment by zahlman

> In a 2009 blog post, security analyst Joanna Rutkowska coined the term "Evil Maid Attack" due to hotel rooms being a common place where devices are left unattended.[1][2] Rutkowska then published a practical method for bypassing TrueCrypt disk encryption on victim devices, requiring merely an external USB flash drive.[3]

I hope the situation with disk encryption has improved. Otherwise, what is even the point of it? Any local malware you get is going to get an unencrypted view of the disk anyway (just like your legitimate programs) and there is already something seriously wrong if someone manages a remote login on a random home desktop that wasn't specifically configured for it.