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[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] downpunxx@fedia.io 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] downpunxx@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago
[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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