If you have a BIOS password then this will stop the casual person from walking up to your PC and rebooting into single user mode - as would encryption. If you compare it to other OS's it's the same. If I am standing at your computer and you're running Windows, OSX or Linux, I (and you don't use encryption) then I can probably get access to all your data and change your password.. It's not unique to Linux.
In some heavy use applications it's possible that encryption may degrade the performance of the system. However for most 'average' users they will not notice the difference. There are many articles online about disk encryption performance. -- Changing passwords without asking for the original one https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267086 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
