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    Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 week ago by yesman@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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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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    [–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Alright, lol, I'll be the guy

    Hey OP, ever heard of Linux?

    [–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (19 children)

    You know, this is actually one Windows decision I agree with. Encryption should be default, especially on portable devices like laptops. For an OS aimed at people who want to use their computers, rather than understand them, you have to choose an encryption that works by default for most of your non-tech-savvy users.

    If they want their data truly in their own hands, or full control, use Linux.

    If they want to use Windows, but not rely on a Microsoft account for recovery, get the bitlocker recovery key and write it down (which you can do).

    But I think this looks like a sane default.

    (Full disclosure, I don't use Windows for anything I care about!)

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    [–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago

    Windows 10 or 11?

    [–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    I thought bitlocker had a maximum of 20 digits for the pin and only numbers were allowed.

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    [–] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

    All in the name of national security *wink

    [–] HarmlessCake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

    This was the exact same situation I experienced with my old Surface 6. Started to look into Linux firmware on Surface devices and deactivated secure boot because it wouldn't boot Ventoy at all and do nothing, so I figured to try again with no secure boot. It still didn't work so I turned it on again, but was then greeted with this Bitlocker screen which I didn't even know it had activated up until this point. I set up a local account so I had no key to reset or something and was literally not able to do anything besides reinstalling the entire system.

    Luckily I had nothing important on it lol

    Weirdly the activation was saved on the MS servers so I didn't need to do that again at least (was a preinstalled system so I wouldn't have known the activation key anyways, I thought "When it doesn't work I'll switch to Linux fully because I'm not paying for that garbage system").

    After I updated Ventoy I was able to boot again even with secure boot on, there seems to have been an issue with that specific version.

    I had Windows on my device since I bought it (around 2018) only upgraded to W11. It never mentioned anything about Bitlocker before this incident so if I had important stuff on it it would have been so over. Well, never save important files on Windows without backup is what I got out of it

    This caused me literally bigger problems than my switch to Arch Linux after having only used Windows the entire time xD

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