• @pelotron@midwest.social
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    1813 days ago

    My wife asked me to help her with her Windows laptop one day. She was stuck at the bitlocker prompt and of course didn’t remember enabling it or being given a password. I was like, WTF, they’re just randomly turning this on by surprise now? LOL

    Luckily she was able to eventually get it unlocked by calling MS support.

    • @cley_faye@lemmy.world
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      2713 days ago

      I like the “encryption, but we have the keys” approach. Makes it very secure, especially since MS never had any security breach or leak, ever.

      • @lud@lemm.ee
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        513 days ago

        It’s obviously mainly supposed to protect against basic thieves in this configuration.

        • Possibly linuxOP
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          513 days ago

          Some some needs to do a “what if Microsoft bought Signal” parody

    • @MonkeMischief
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      513 days ago

      by calling MS support.

      Which hopefully wasn’t a 1-800 number flashing obnoxiously on the screen. 😂