<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Phill Whiteside <<a href="mailto:phillw@ubuntu.com">phillw@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Joao, the same would apply to the option of encrypting their home area, which is on the install CD and causes no end of grief on support. They get the option of that, but not a seperate /home partition? Bearing in mind we are dealing mostly with Windows users, is the encryption part really needed as a default question - or only available in advanced? Regards, Phill. </blockquote><div> </div></div>Hi Phill, I don't have data to support this, but a significant part of today's devices are mobile devices. I truly believe that the risk of keeping unencrypted data on a mobile device is so high that encryption more than an option should be a default. Encryption provides a clear and unarguable benefit for most users. I am not sure to which support problems are you referring to, unless you are doing low level file management (advanced user), home encryption is transparent. I am sorry but I am unable to identify any clear benefit for most users to keep the data on a different partition. -- João Luís Marques Pinto GetDeb Team Leader <a href="http://www.getdeb.net">http://www.getdeb.net</a> <a href="http://blog.getdeb.net">http://blog.getdeb.net</a>