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Any physical access means game over to a competent attacker. You say hard disk encryption? I say evil maid attack.

evil maid attack wouldn't have worked in this situation, since she broke in and stole the laptop. I also doubt she has the know-how to perform an evil maid attack. Enabling a BIOS boot password would make it more difficult to stealthily perform an evil maid attack. Finally, "no security is perfect" is not an excuse for having no security.

I was talking about the general situation - the grandparent post talks about his wife's access for example.

I also said a competent attacker.

Also, I wasn't saying that disk encryption is worthless. If your laptop gets stolen by someone who has not previously had access to your computer (or confiscated at a border) then your data is secure.

I agree with your point about the BIOS password.

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