You're hissy fits are getting annoying.

I'm sorry. I don't actually believe there is a thing called "cultural Marxism". That's just another meaningless descriptor brought to you by the sick twisted minds that insist climatologists are communists and a functional useful government is impossible and no one of wealth owes the civilization in a damned thing.

So let me get this straight. The way to deal with political correctness is more political correctness?

That's what always amazed me about the Huckleberry Finn bans. You had everyone from the KKK to Civil Rights types demanding its removal from school libraries. About the only thing you could say was that the White Supremacists got the point.

And therein lies the problem. It is both startlingly intrusive and pathetically useless.

I wasn't aware that Congress persecuting people for exercising long established liberties was the right thing to do.McCarthy was hounding screenwriters and folk singers, and even by the standards of the Red scare 1950s McCarthy's actions were deemed a contemptible violation of the 1st Amendment.

"Your Safeway manager never told you what happened to your father. Luke, you're Safeway's bitch."

The bigger question, though, is WHY THE FUCK can't we either disable whole-drive encryption, or at least set it to a key WE control, with some means to read the bits from even a drive that's totally nonfunctional SATA-wise (JTAG, SPI, whatever) and reconstruct it offline?

Can we do that with mechanical drives ? As someone who has to do quite a lot of data recovery recently (thank you WD 3TB Green)
I'm very interested in knowing how, also the WD Mybooks come with a hardware encryption PCB.
Has anyone had success of bypassing/cracking those, since they fail fairly often and the data on the disk is "scrambled" without them.

The law is an ass.

How do you really know what you need? Which specs are really relevant?

The easies method: You open a taskmanager and have the user recreate its troubled session.
Then you look at what is starved (memory, cpu, IO) and by whom and you upgrade hardware
and tweak/replace the software if possible.

Sometimes you need to do this over a longer period then it's time to write some scripts to poll /proc, performance counters via WMI.

Sounds to me like a violation of EU common market treaties.