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Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the days of popping out a hard drive, and grabbing whatever the hell’s on there with a usb connection are over

Independent repair shops are going to suffer big time from this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

well, if the customer provides them the bitlocker key, then they can access and manipulate the data on the drive, if not, they're fucked

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've supported bitlocker in corporate deployments. I have also spent some time in independent repair shops. I have little confidence in users to supply a bitlocker key, let alone even know what one is. I anticipate a lot of "what? I already gave you my password."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

lol yes

[–] AceBonobo 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Obviously, Microsoft will happily sell you one drive cloud backup to solve the problem they are creating.