When you encrypt a file or a hard drive, is it really secure?
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Porcupins asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if encryption standards like AES really make your data secure. There's no such thing as perfect security. Someone with sufficient time and money, and a strong enough motive, can crack anything. So the real question becomes: Is your encryption secure enough....
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