It's wild to me that people have accepted that Microsoft has both the decryption and login keys to all windows desktop systems outside of a corporate network....and virtually no one sees this as a problem .... at all..
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It's the "I have nothing to hide!" crowd who also think that employers literally inspecting their bodily fluids is fine.
aug 29, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the default before that was most drives not having any encryption on them, and windows logins being trivial to bypass. Really not a fan of microsoft, but it's a perfect is the enemy of the good situation.
aug 29, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
How exactly did giving your login keys to microsoft make windows login any more difficult to bypass? Bitlocker made it harder to get the files, sure--Which also means the hundreds of people per year who take their broken drives into a data recovery expert are SOL
aug 29, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Disk encryption stops tools like kon-boot from working. Key escrow is an entirely separate issue.
aug 29, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view