You don’t need your hard drive if all your files have been secretly moved to OneDrive taps forehead.
Comment on Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11
30p87@feddit.org 5 weeks agoI guess they’ll use TPM. I’m so excited to tell half of my “clients” (all seniors in the village) that they are fucked because their Laptop died.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Yeah, this makes sense for corporate environments with keys backed up to a centralized location like Active Directory. Not for consumers with no reasonable way to keep some key like this in a safe place as a “break glass in case of emergency” option.
Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It backs up to the Microsoft Account
Still, some people create an @outlook.com email, set up no recovery options, forget the password, and find themselves locked out.
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
How do you get to your Microsoft account when your computer is locked?
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If you’re doing things properly, you’ll know your Microsoft account password or have it in a password manager (and maybe have other account recovery options available like getting a password reset email etc.), and have a separate password for the PC you’re locked out of, which would be the thing you’d forgotten. If someone isn’t computer-literate, it’s totally plausible that they’d forget both passwords, have no password manager, and not have set up a recovery email address, and they’d lose all their data if they couldn’t get into their machine.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Many people will have access to a secondary device, not all of course.
lud@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
A phone or another computer?