• LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    29 days 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.

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      29 days ago

      well, if the customer provides them the bitlocker key, then they can access and manipulate the data on the drive, if not, they’re fucked

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        29 days 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.”

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      29 days ago

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