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FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0 (news.slashdot.org)

submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@programming.dev

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TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows."

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 months ago (7 children)

TPM is nice and all, but Micro$ encrypts your data without consent or a password. Which is insane.

My backup windows install literall bitlock-ed itself

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org -5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It is never done without a password.

You are spreading false information. Stop.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I didnt log in with a microsoft account. I only gave my user password for my account.

[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is no longer possible with recent builds of the Win11 installer :(

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Damn. My install is older, so I will probably get a second SSD and keep that one forever

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