yeah, no kidding, a real bitch if you want to back up your systems, and the hit to processing speed is significant, though with it enabled, the days of popping out a hard drive, and grabbing whatever the hell's on there with a usb connection are over
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You can still mount it to another machine if you have the key. It's an extra layer of pain in the ass, though.
I don't use an M$ account so if your key is backed up to the cloud (aside: can't wait to read the headline about when that gets breached) I don't personally know offhand how difficult it is to extricate your BitLocker keys from Microsoft.
Source?
I hope it does not affect performance
If you read that article it's only slow on systems that don't have hardware acceleration, which basically isn't any system from the past half a decade at least (and definitely not anything that would have a compatible TPM)
I'm rocking a 12-year-old 3930k with BitLocker on all drives and it's perfectly fine.
Clownstrike taught them nothing..
What does Crowdstrike have to do with Bitlocker?
Clearly you didn't do any machine recovery during that fiasco or you wouldn't ask. When the machines crashed the only fix was to get in and delete the offending file, but as Windows wouldn't load up you had to unlock the drive to get in with a working OS.