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by voycey 3574 days ago
The windows password is more of a "Please don't use my area and ruin my browsing history" than an actual security option, I thought that was well known? Full disk encryption is really the only way if you want to keep people out of your stuff!
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It's well known among people who know about these things.

My mother, on the other hand? Me: "What if your laptop is stolen?" Her: "But it has a password."

And she's far from the only one -- just in my anecdotal life.