<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class="">Why is full disk encryption of interest to Cloud Flare? Rack
mounted servers don't casually walk away, do they? Well, when one
is dealing on the scale of Cloud Flare I bet they do. Maybe not
stolen by an Evil Maid, but servers will get lost in the shuffle....</p></div></blockquote>The big cloud storage providers put a lot of work into this. I've seen specific discussions of this concerning Google, for example. Each individual drive is tracked from "birth" to death. No drive, once it's been actually accessed on a live system, ever leaves the building without being physically destroyed. There are all kinds of procedures for drive handling to make sure this can never happen.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>All of this even though most of the user data written to drives is encrypted anyway.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>A "lost" drive would be a major, major crisis.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Physical security and proper handling of valuable physical objects is something we've been doing for a long, long time.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Of course any process can fail or be deliberately *made* to fail - even bank vaults get broken into - but I would rank that risk pretty low for users of any major vendor.</div><div><div> -- Jerry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>