It’s the fact that it doesn’t spell out a word which gave me one

So if I understand it correctly, if you were to use this “solution”, you’d leave live exposed prongs on one end of the lights, right?

Cause that would make it even dumber than I had imagined lmao

I’ve heard the Christmas lights one before too, but I never got it. How do (American) Christmas lights work that you’d need one of these cords?

Cause it’s cringe af

I think it just really goes to show you can’t hide anything on a computer physically.

What do you mean? It’s certainly possible when using encryption software such as bitlocker. It’s just not always enabled by default.In fact it’s saved my ass from total data loss a couple of times.

If you can make sure nobody has physical access to your pc than there’s a case to be made that you don’t need it, and if you can’t and are afraid that someone has both knowledge of this fact and the intention to (ab)use it, you use bitlocker.