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    Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.

    Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you've got an unactivated copy, local account, or don't know your M$ account credentials, your boned.

    Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.

    BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I mean you can write your Bitlocker key down and store it safely or put it somewhere else safe.. Lol

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    All in the name of national security *wink

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

    Windows is the virus.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    I've been preaching about this for a while. Many modern systems are getting bitlocker turned on by default.

    If your system gets messed up, or simply won't start because of some security vendors bad update, goodbye data. You need the recovery key, and if you don't have it, you'll never see your bits the the correct order again.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Fuck Microsoft.

    I remember back in highschool a buddy encrypted his harddrive, didn't backup his key. He Lost ALOT when I upgraded his comp

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I got into coding in the last few days. I have a project. Bumping into this while I'm trying to learn this shit? Fuck me. You know, we could just stop using money

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    I can't connect what you are saying into a coherent thread

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    No, we can't. Otherwise how would people like Elon and Bezos know that they're better than us?

    /s

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Hahahha

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    When I switched to a new CPU I got a bit locker message and it was one of my biggest computer scares ever. I couldn't remember if the shop that assembled my pc would have enabled it or not. And wasn't available to contact.

    I had to take a risk. If I continued there was a 50 50 chance my shit would have been bricked. Thankfully. That shop had the foresight to NOT randomly enable features the client didn't ask for

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    I ran into a similar problem after a bios update.

    Turns out "this update may wipe out your bitlocker key" also means "if you don't have bitlocker turned on, it'll just wipe out your windows key."

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I just leave secure boot/bitlocker off when it comes to my home system. It wasnt something I "needed" when I was dual booting windows 10 and it's not something I'm gonna enable now that I'm using 11.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It’s not ”leaving bitlocker off”, though. It’s ”be aware about it and turn bitlocker off manually” since it’s enabled by default in the latest updates.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    They can't do that legally without notifying our asking in eu

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I tried having it on my new laptop for a bit. It took like a week for Windows to kill the secure boot key for my Linux partition. Even after I disabled secure boot I couldn't get it to boot up so I had to reinstall. Just left it turned off afterwards.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Its just not worth the trouble for a home pc imo

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