Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 months agoThe fun thing about Linux is your realize physical control is ownership. You can just throw a Bootable Linux image with some utilities and remove the password from a Windows account in a second. If you really need to keep something safe, it has to be encrypted.
kadu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That used to be true, but no longer works
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Regardless, you can just read what’s on the disk anyway, so you don’t need to be able to log in.
randombullet@feddit.de 11 months ago
Unless bitlocker is enabled by default, which is becoming more and more common
kadu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unfortunately? How is encryption by default a bad thing? It’s amazingly good at protecting data from people who wouldn’t even know what encryption is.
The number of lost laptops in coffee shops protected by BitLocker is insane.