But in any case, you would be measuring the mass of electrons and not the information they represent. This theory suggests that a storage device would have additional mass dependent on information content, so things like whitening / encryption would not matter.
However, here is a question that immediately occurs: If I have a message with "informational mass" x, and encrypt it, does the encrypted message has the same informational mass, or is the mass of the encrypted message the same as a random message of the same length?
In that case you do not have to account for the electron mass at all.
I can see this discussion go very far into metaphysical. :)
I don't have a clue, I just think it's a relevant question at this point.