Your title is borked. Maybe edit that
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Since when is Bitlocker required? None of my files are encrypted, and I've been using 11 since it came out.
Bitlocker encrypts your drive, not single files. Once the computer is booted up, it's completely transparent to the user.
Every retail PC I've seen with win11 has bitlocker enabled. Screwed one over as they forgot their password...
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I am LITERALLY in the process of migrating my servers to my new NixOS server after months of prep work. This couldn't have been more timely lol Funniest part is, I just did my own TPM based encryption on my drives.
That's extraordinary, even for Microsoft.
If you're on Win 11 Pro, up to 23H2, follow these steps to prevent 24H2:
win+R, type GPEDIT.MSC, press enter Locate "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Manage updates offered from Windows Update\Select the target feature update version"
Now click the "Enabled" button, type "Windows 11" in the first prompt and "23H2" in the second prompt and click "Apply"
That will prevent 24H2 from being downloaded and installed. When they've fixed this and the "Recall" mess, you can go back and undo the setting.
You can still do the "bypassnro" thing, it's just a script that's been removed. All it did was write a registry entry and reboot. This is the registry key entry - you can still press shift-F10 at the same point and type this manually:
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0
another method to try is this, instead of the registry entry:
start ms-cxh:localonly
but I haven't tried that one yet.
I love how Windows fix has terminal and GUI configurations mixed as an unholy concoction directly from the HQ.
Windows is malware.
I remember when Linux users used to say that, but it turns out they were right.
I'm glad I leaved that cursed OS behind.
What a stinker of an OS. Linux never looked so good
Its why I switched to Linux.
I've been a Linux user since 2010 and I'm glad I developed that skillset
We use Linux by the way.
But I use arch BTW
I'm of the opinion that encryption based security should be compartmentalized. IE, an encrypted folder, or "safe" app. Safes in housing are already a concept that is already commonly known so it would be natural to extend a safe into the digital realm. This would also help in the idea that safes are locked with a key, so if the user loses their keys, whatever is inside the safe, might as well be lost.
Now if EVERYTHING is a safe, (always on encryption). People will never known the difference. Its a dangerous type of security that is likely to be more a loss than a benefit.
For most folks they could just write down their encryption passphrase in a secure location with the rest of their papers since 99.9% of the risk is thieves stealing their laptops. For most folks the biggest secure item they have is the one they use constantly their browser and all the passwords it stores to all their services. You know the thing they use constantly.
A compartmentalized approach makes sense when the laptop contains really vulnerable data like laptops which have been stolen with bunches of client data on it or a journalists communication with confidential sources etc etc. In that case you STILL want to encrypt the whole thing but you want to separately encrypt the really important stuff with a different key so that every time you open your laptop to watch cat videos on youtube you aren't also unlocking all the data you will have to tell your companies users you lost.
You are arguing for selective encryption, but I can't really find any technical argument in your comment.
Whether we are speaking of encryption at transit or rest, there's a general consensus that encrypting everything is best in every way except possibly performance for select cases.
For example, it allows hiding (meta)data about the really important bits, and with computers it's really difficult to tell which bits of (meta)data could be combined to abuse. Tampering is a consideration as well.
The bot that posted this is not programmed to edit typos.
Really wish we didn't have bots posting at all
If they are still using windows, their privacy and data safety was never of importance to them, anyway.
Or just get the data back from the backups they made.
Data privacy != Documents/data on hard disk
If I have documents on my harddisk, they are private. If a windows 11 user has documents on their harddisk, they are not.
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FIX YOUR FUCKING TITLE lazy ass
Dude has a stutter be cool
don't you mean, "FIX YOUR FUCKING TITLEFIX YOUR TITLE FUCKING lazy ass"
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You can merge the choices and resolve the conflict: Microsoft users are dumb.
Thanks?
Clearly you've never used a Mac. It wasn't until 2024 that you could snap windows, they have a built in dark mode but the word processor that ships with their computer requires you to use a dark page template if you want black background/white text, and lord forgive you if you want to take a screenshot.
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I had a stroke reading the thread title.
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