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kernelle@0d.gs ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

All the time, then people get ran around in circles, are given a too technical explanation and give up more often than not.

The encryption is not inherently a bad thing, but forcing people into account creation is where the trouble starts. With piss-poor customer support as the cherry on top, this should never be allowed.

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HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’d say it’s a bad thing because it’s the wrong threat model as a default.

More home users are in scenarios like “I spilled a can of Diet Sprite into my laptop, can someone yank the SSD and recover my cat pictures” than “Someone stole my laptop and has physical access to state secrets that Hegseth has yet to blurt on Twitch chat”. Encryption makes the first scenario a lot harder to easily recover from, and people with explicit high security needs should opt into it or have organization-managed configs.

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- M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  “Someone stole my laptop and has physical access to state secrets that Hegseth has yet to blurt on Twitch chat”.
  
  Thanks for making laugh. It’s been a while.
  
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- kernelle@0d.gs ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I agree, the encryption should be deliberate choice. And we’ve said nothing yet about the impact on performance.
  
  You used to almost be forced to make a recovery CD or USB when encrypting a drive, now people don’t even know how ‘important’ the MS account actually is.
  
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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That’s what the online MS account is for - your encryption key is stored on your account that you can access from any web browser.
  
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