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Encrypting your computer’s storage drive is an easy way to safeguard your data in case you lose it, if it breaks and can’t boot, or if you recycle it. Once you encrypt a storage drive, you scramble the data and make it unreadable without your login password as long as the computer is powered off. Despite the technical-sounding term, encryption is relatively easy to set up and is already enabled on many modern laptops.
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