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 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Some some needs to do a "what if Microsoft bought Signal" parody

[–] MonkeMischief 6 points 3 months ago

by calling MS support.

Which hopefully wasn't a 1-800 number flashing obnoxiously on the screen. 😂