CHAPTER 12
Keeping Your Personal Data Secure via Encryption
There’s a pretty good chance that your computer contains all sorts of personal or sensitive information—legal, financial, or medical documents, —and so on—that you wouldn’t want a stranger to get their hands on.
You may think that your Windows account password protects your sensitive files from prying eyes, and it does, but only up to a certain point. Although keeping your Windows password secret (it is a secret, right?) will prevent anyone from logging into your account to view your files, there are ways to access a PC’s storage without going through Windows.
One way is to use a so-called ...
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