EFF has notified that Windows 10 sends the crypto hash of your drive (HDD or SSD) to Microsoft cloud service for no apparent reason.
It is the famed "DeviceEncryption" offer from Microsoft. It does not work on nearly all devices. Also you HAVE TO use Microsoft account to enable this feature.
The system works so that if you forget your password and cannot anymore recover your encrypted files, you can get your hash from Microsoft and un-decrypt the drive.
Now here is a problem: Microsoft stores your hash information and if somebody steals it from Microsoft, then he also has access to it. Or maybe someone manages to capture your network traffic when hash is being sent to Microsoft server. There are many possible scenarios.
Hasn't this been happening since W10 launched? And can't you just save the key to an external drive instead?
Tyler Cruz
> Encryption requires Microsoft account
Not sure if trolling or just stupid...
Luke Gray
if you really cared about that you wouldn't be using windows. knowing how retarded normalfags are this is a good thing.
Robert Anderson
If you're using the encryption method included with Windows you do. It will not let you enable it unless you use a M$ account
Adrian Davis
>The system works so that if you forget your password and cannot anymore recover your encrypted files, you can get your hash from Microsoft and un-decrypt the drive. how convenient.
Kayden White
just use veracrypt like rofl
John Johnson
>If you're using the encryption method included with Windows you do. It will not let you enable it unless you use a M$ account Bullshit.
Bitlocker works fine without a Microsoft account.
Go be stupid somewhere else.
Ethan Anderson
Nice try FBI
Angel Diaz
It's there as an alternative if you don't want to save spare keys to external hard drive or print them.
Robert Moore
>Or maybe someone manages to capture your network traffic when hash is being sent to Microsoft server. There are many possible scenarios. No one wants Jow Forums's Ryzen fetishism or donkey porn.
Carter Hughes
people use their computers for other things than shitposting. for work, school etc. imagine someone stole your 100 word essay you had to write
Aaron Barnes
B-but my video games! I need to keep defending windows so i can keep playing my video games!
Zachary Butler
>for no apparent reason. >The system works so that if you forget your password and cannot anymore recover your encrypted files, you can get your hash from Microsoft and un-decrypt the drive. so there is a reason? >Also you HAVE TO use Microsoft account to enable this feature. that's because it stores the decryption key in your onedrive, optionally. if you're not logged in a microsoft account it doesn't do that. this feature is mainly meant for portable devices like the shitty 8" tablets that came out when Windows 8 was released, because most of those BitLocker the drive during initial setup and don't really have a way to store the key on external media.
Robert Lopez
By law the information has to be provided for free to governmental agencies. They can only ask the agencies to pay for building the infrastructure necessary to interface to their systems.
Jordan Gonzalez
>imagine someone stole your 100 word essay you had to write For what purpose? It is not time-effective to find where that person lives/works, then to proceed to use aircrack or a wireless sniffer and hopefully find the right wifi signal I am on, so he can try his best to use a password list ripped off the internet to crack the wifi three-way handshake and then finally sniff my network traffic where he hopefully catches the packages that contain my essay. That person saves time writing his own essay.
Hunter Sanders
>Autistic screeching Go be stupidly autistic somewhere else...
Henry Johnson
never underestimate Jow Forums autists. hacking someones pc could be easier than writing an essay
Dylan Bell
>still trying to defend this You were BTFO several posts ago. Why are you even still trying?
Asher Morgan
>You were BTFO several posts ago. [Citation needed] Bitlocker does not require a Microsoft account.
Gavin Morales
not much you can do when you get a gag order anyway right?
Liam Russell
>[Citation needed] Here you go faggot. Do your own homework next time
> Reading comprehension is hard Okay jackass, here you go.
The recovery key can be saved to a USB drive or printed.
Maybe have an idea what you're talking about next time...
Brayden Butler
It says right fucking there that you need a Microsoft account, and yet you're still moving the goalposts.
Elijah Johnson
just another reason to stay on win7
Dylan Wilson
that's for bitlocker device encryption which, as outlined in , is for tablets that can't save the key to removable media, and is not the same as normal bitlocker encryption.
Matthew Thomas
>EFF has notified that Windows 10 sends the crypto hash of your drive (HDD or SSD) to Microsoft cloud service for no apparent reason. Just tell us what's pertinent--does ALL Windows 10 devices send that information to M$ or only those who uses a Microsoft Account/is running device encryption?
Robert Morales
try reading the article and/or the thread, retard.
Gabriel King
> I've never used a thing and don't know what I'm talking about. Bitlocker does not require a Microsoft account, or a domain, I haven't moved shit, and you still don't know what you're talking about.
Brody Cruz
>no apparent reason. >telling people this >believing this
Jonathan Jenkins
Pretty much the bad side of Jow Forums in a nutshell.
Carter Rivera
My desktop is literally encrypted with bitlocker without an Microsoft Account.
Angel Hill
Article is paywalled brainlet.
James Davis
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, a cult, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU cult.
Camden Scott
I don't get it, you have to opt-in with an account knowing exactly that the keys are sent up to cloud for recovery. What's the problem again? You an already use bitlocker and export the keys yourself and not have to upload them. This has been the case for fucking years why is someone trying to shill this shit now?
1. This is FAR from new news and has been known about for YEARS. It was introduced in the same update that allowed you to login to your PC using your Microsoft account. 2. There are ways around it. You can install Windows as normal and enable Bitlocker after. I think if you setup Windows to login using your Microsoft account, then you will be forced to backup the key to the cloud. I have a windows install that is bitlockered and I never attached any microsoft account (don't have one). 3. It is a dumb feature, but it's a feature designed for dumb people. Imagine you are a brainlet, 99% chance if you encrypt your files your eventually going to forget your password and get locked out and not have a backup. This way if you get locked out, you can hit "forgot password" and go through normal steps to recover Microsoft account and unlock your drive. It's not for hiding your CP from the NSA, it's to stop some asshole whos stolen your laptop from emptying your paypal account with the password you saved in secret.txt on your desktop, or stop someone copying your c:\nudes\ folder.
Jose Allen
This has to be a joke, right? >uploading encryption keys What the fuck
Ethan Flores
Well Windows as a whole is a joke, so there's that.
Owen Allen
>included >lists 3rd party shit RETARDEDDEDEDEDEDEDEDED
