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Re:When Full-Disk Encryption Goes Wrong by hobarrera on Saturday May 21, 2016 @10:20AM (#11744750)
> This story is about full-disk encryption going bad, but it could just as easily be the hard drive dying, or another software bug that corrupts the disk.

Not really. Those 4KB with the encryption key are EVERYTHING in full disk encryption. There's nothing equivalently important in unencrypted disks.

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