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Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.

Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you've got an unactivated copy, local account, or don't know your M$ account credentials, your boned.

Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.

BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Good luck locking loose mainboards sold for the DIY market, which don't come with anything installed by default, to a given OS, the only way that could maybe work is forcing the OS in ROM.

Another way would be to discontinue the socketed desktop form factors and replace them all with mini PCs that are as locked down as the current Macs.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thinking for two seconds:

    MS pays Google to start enforcing some device verification thing so you can only view a good chunk of the Internet if you pass verification? (Assumes Google goes even harder making the web Chrome-focused)

    Ooh Cloudflare could be invited to the party here too. Constant CAPTCHAs if you’re not on an MS AUTHENTI-PC! device. (Think Private Access Token)

    …fill in the gaps friends 😉 you know MS has already debated all your “suggestions” anyway

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Google already does precisely that with their "open source" mobile OS. People underestimate how easily these guys can ruin stuff

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    :( tell me more?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    First off, Google has made agressive deals with phone manufacturers to ship spyware with their phones by default, and some of the stuff can only get taken out by rooting/jailbreaking the phone. By doing so, they acquired nearly 100% of the app store market share, and then used it to make "useful features" such as integrity checks that are tied to the Play Services app (which is an always on spyware background app).
    The end result is, even if you manage to root your phone and install a custom ROM (which is not always available to every model), a bunch of apps will refuse to work properly because you fail the Google Play fingerprinting steps and are assumed to be a security vulnerability. If I'm not mistaken there's also some shady stuff with certificates, too

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    So you're suggesting MS will somehow block non-Windows OSes from installing, even on hardware like loose mainboards for building your own PC with, or even on barebones mini PC kits or certain laptop SKUs, which don't ship with an OS installed to begin with and expect the user to install it themselves? I mean, unless something extreme happens like changing the entire PC platform to be like the current Macs, that won't be feasible.

    Also, doing that would kill the Steam Deck which I doubt Valve would take sitting down.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    SecureBoot pretty much does this. There is nothing preventing motherboard manufacturers from blocking adding non-MS keys if they wanted to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Ah no

    so you can only view a good chunk of the Internet if you pass verification

    /

    Constant CAPTCHAs

    Get Google & Cloudflare to make the internet suck if you didn’t pay Microsoft[‘s vendors] “enough” for hardware

    Just sounds great doesn’t it?!

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