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Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is going to suck for a lot of people. I'm all for encryption. If any of the laptops, in the business I work for, lack encryption, I'm going to throw a fit. But, for home use the situation is not the same. I'd argue that the risk of device theft leading to critical data compromise is pretty low and the risk of the user needing someone to perform offline data recovery for that user is much higher. And the number of users who will actually have the key saved in a location they can get to it, and provide to the data recovery tech, can probably be counted without taking off my shoes.

This is dumb. It's yet another case of Microsoft picking a default for users which helps Microsoft but isn't good for users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Not even fucking Apple, the so called "privacy company", enables FDE by default.

This is going to lose so many non-techie people's data it's not even funny. Now what used to be a 15 minute job to help mom/grandma after they forgot their password again to "recover" their photos is going to be impossible

They're not going to write down the recovery key, they're not even going to know what it is or the importance of it.