in reply to Re^3: Adjust bcrypt cost to prevent future password hash attacks
in thread Adjust bcrypt cost to prevent future password hash attacks

You seem to be associating "offline attacks" with physical theft of the hardware. However, they much more often (including in the recent LinkedIn/eHarmony cases) involve cases where an attacker has duplicated the contents of the user database. In such cases, encrypting the hard drive is completely irrelevant.

Each of these measures is only applicable to certain types of attack:

Whatever you may be trying to secure, you need to assess which threats are actually relevant to you and implement the appropriate security measures based on that (and on the value of the system/its data).
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