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Kinda makes you wonder what's on their drive that they're so concerned about being uncovered. I'm all for privacy as a right, but people don't usually go balls to the wall on their computer security just to protect cat memes or tax documents. People won't even assume just regular porn stuff. People will assume terrorist plots or sex crimes or stolen classified stuff. Idk, if my NSA agent cares enough to break basic security just to find out my porn search history, then I'm just thinking that that's wasted tax dollars. I'm not that interesting.
Edit: I'm not saying don't do simple encryption, I'm saying that putting up ten barriers and having paid services and using multiple vpns has drawbacks of cost and performance, so what are the odds that somebody would go to all the trouble for data that nobody would care about. If you saw a giant vault in somebody's basement, you would assume there's something interesting in there.
Kinda makes you wonder what's in their bedroom they're so concerned about being uncovered. I'm all for privacy as a right,but people don't usually go balls to the wall on their bedroom privacy just to not be seen changing. People wont even assume just regular sex stuff. People will assume terrorist plots or a murder dungeon or your mom.
Privacy is privacy is privacy. There's no need to justify it. Desiring it isn't an indicator of any wrongdoing. The second you are okay with literally every aspect of your existence being completely public, and I mean all of it, is the second your statement holds any ground.
I get your example, and agree with the premise that "if you have nothing to hide..." is never a good argument, but if someone had security cameras surrounding/within their house, and 4 different locks on their bedroom door, and then a high quality safe in the bedroom, I would absolutely think there's something more than sex toys in there. That's still never a valid basis to search their stuff, but if there was nothing significant in there, that would feel odd.
This is what we call Bias.