And right now I'm using whole drive encryption on my Netbook.

And that'll be the subject of an upcoming podcast because it involves performing whole drive encryption.

Now, the next level up is native hard drive encryption, which is, as we've also said in the past, beginning to be available.

So either password-protecting the drive or native hard drive encryption are those first two options.

And certainly there was no native hard drive encryption.

But it's definitely the case that imaging changes relative to whole drive encryption.

So I want to explain the difference in security between this and whole drive encryption.

Whole drive encryption means that there is nothing stored on the drive except noise.

What does this mean for my whole drive encryption?

It抯 another thing to figure out how to crack hard drive encryption.