Disk Encryption: Usable or Impediment?
Just wanted to poll you OSX users out there, how many of you actually use FileVault on your home (or work) systems? As far as I know, enabling FileVault user home directory encryption will make most of Apple Timecapsule's functions useless (e.g. point-in-time auto-backup and recovery).
I am already assuming that 99.99% of Windows users are not implementing TrueCrypt or PointSec whole-disk encryption, so I won't ask. However, OSX seems to make some efforts at making this easy to enable and run fully in the background.
The challenge with whole-disk encryption is that if you are good about backing files up, you need a way to do it on the backup side as well. This is not trivial, especially if incremental backups are part of the picture. One way I've seen is a combination of rsync.net and a utility called duplicity. But in my initial attempts, it has the same shortcomings as regular rsync, only that you cannot clean up the files as easy because you cannot view them at all on the remote location (a security feature).
I'm wondering how many actually secure their drives, or if important stuff just gets compartmentalized into encrypted .dmg volumes?
