• pelotron@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    5 months 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      30
      ·
      5 months 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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

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