[Cryptography] encrypting hard drives (was Re: Shredding a file on a flash-based file system?)

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"Perry E. Metzger" <perry piermont.com>
> > >  hard drives with built in encryption, because there is no
> > 
> > I have never understood the threat model that these drives 
> > supposedly protect against.

> I think the rationale was basically performance based

Compliance - you can now tick the box saying you store data encrypted.