Comment on Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoYeah, 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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Even if you have your Microsoft account password, it doesn’t help when you can’t even boot into Windows.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Many people will have access to a secondary device, not all of course.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Almost everyone has access to a phone. Most governments, including the US provide free or low cost smartphones to those who can’t afford it. There are entire MVNO carriers based around this, like Assurance wireless.
lud@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
A phone or another computer?