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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do they also know their password? Hopefully they didn't save it on the PC that is now locked (a lot of them probably did, if they saved it at all).

[โ€“] 9point6 11 points 3 months ago

A Microsoft password is more recoverable than a lost bitlocker recovery key.

Also, it feels worth highlighting that every other OS targeted at general consumers encrypts user data by default. Microsoft is really just getting up to speed with where everyone else was like 5 years ago.