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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft's Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

Bitlocker supports the same usecase, but everybody wants that automatic boot feature so...

It also lets you store a secondary key on a server and require the computer to be on trusted networks to be able to retrieve it to boot, but I've never ever heard of anybody using that

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure it uploads the key to microsoft servers when you do that

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

That's the default, but you can block it in the command line configuration tool

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