[sandworm101]

>> If your plaintext is that sensitive, it should never touch media in that form.

I don't disagree, but I am not god emperor yet. There are plenty of occasions when very sensitive information is stored as plaintext with no practicable encryption options. For instance, good luck finding a reasonably priced camera that encrypts data when it saves it to a card. Say that camera was used to gather evidence of crimes, perhaps by photographing victims in hospital. Plaintext. Very sensitive data. On a USB-readable consumer-grade device. I once had a client with a desk drawer full of old cards from such a camera.

In such situations, ironically, a cellphone might be a more secure option. Although using a phone introduces lots of other problems, at least the images can be saved encrypted immediately upon creation.