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Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone (tomshardware.com)
3 points by taubek on May 9, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


They have probably studied ransomware business model and decided to implement it for their stock owners and to improve migration to the cloud Windows subscription when the time comes.

- happy camper without Microsoft product in his family, unfortunately, still too much Google around, working on it -


This creates a booby trap for everyone who avoids using a Microsoft account to log on to their computer.

If you use a local account and don't keep a backup of your bitlocker key then you can loose all your files if windows won't boot.

You can't take the drive out and read it with a different computer if you don't have the bitlocker key.


A decade or so later, but besides that: good job. Maybe they combine it with passkeys someday, because you know.. cameras are a thing theese days. Point it towards the keyboard and get the keyphrase.


BitLocker supports turning any USB drive into a key. But I don’t like that it creates a separate hidden partition.




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