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Mike Hankey25-Mar-22 9:42
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Rage24-Mar-22 6:25
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Not directly because of russian cyber attacks, but the attacks are growing exponentially - with all the online tutorials, ransomware is going to be the replacement of the nigerian (or wherever) mail scams soon.
Encryption will not help you, because ransomware encrypts your encrypted drive. It is like zipping an already zipped file, with a additional password. Drive encryption is a security measures in case someone steals your drive physically.

My NAS is hanging to my internet box, since the latter also does routing for me, but I think I will decouple them and buy a separate more secured router. I would hate it to lose 20 years of pictures because of a ransomware - and no, even losing the pictures of my kids are not worth money to villains.

As for speed, my work laptop has encryption, and it is fast as hell, so: no, no slow down on daily use.

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