It’s good, for privacy and all of course, but I remember here a Dell BIOS upgrade that basically wiped the TPM2.0 and so windows was asking for the recovery bitlocker key at boot. I have them on a encrypted USB key and anyway I can access my MS account from another device to find the key and type it.
But I’m sure a lot of people will basically say “well, fuck, I don’t have the key”, guaranteed.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 months ago
Perfect, this will finally lock out all the old people of their devices because they forget their bitlocker password :D
30p87@feddit.org 3 months ago
I 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.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 months ago
You don’t need your hard drive if all your files have been secretly moved to OneDrive taps forehead.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Keys are backed up to their MS account by default.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Unless you don’t have an MS account or only set up a dummy account just to get the stupid OS to activate and have never used once since.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Then somebody can sell new devices to them and M$ can sell new windows with it.
Win-win-win-win…