You can avoid device encryption by using a local account.
  • LunchMoneyThiefEnglish
    91·
    1 month ago

    the days of popping out a hard drive, and grabbing whatever the hell’s on there with a usb connection are over

    Independent repair shops are going to suffer big time from this.

      • LunchMoneyThiefEnglish
        151·
        1 month ago

        I’ve supported bitlocker in corporate deployments. I have also spent some time in independent repair shops. I have little confidence in users to supply a bitlocker key, let alone even know what one is. I anticipate a lot of “what? I already gave you my password.”

    • AceBonobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      Obviously, Microsoft will happily sell you one drive cloud backup to solve the problem they are creating.