I’d say the author is being so restrictive in the scope of threats that it isn’t very useful.
Regardless, even in their very restrictive scenario, it provides defense in depth as I said.
Regardless, even in their very restrictive scenario, it provides defense in depth as I said.
Loss of control of the hard disks may have many different ways it can manifest in the real world, but from a cryptography and software development perspective, is congruent to other flavors of the same underlying problem.
That's not being "restrictive", it's recognizing the common denominator.
It doesn't need in-depth discussion, and the way data is still highly exposed despite disk encryption is very important, but that implication is not great.