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[–] 1925982? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

ext4 supposedly has native encryption now. But aside from full disk encryption, would chassis intrusion detection, UEFI, BIOS password be going overboard for protecting a unit from physical compromise? Does any of that even matter once your hard drive is encrypted?

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[–] the_thin_man [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It does matter. I didn't include it because this was a suggestion for novices to get started on privacy.

BIOS password is good but not as necessary as encrypting your boot partition. Even if your root and home partitions are encrypted an attacker could still infect your bootloader without an encrypted boot partition.