I had a stroke reading the thread title.

Surprise, surprise.

Forcing security measures onto someone who doesn't understand them or know how to recover their data if something goes wrong is a bad idea.

HEY, @moe90@feddit.nl

FIX YOUR FUCKING TITLE lazy ass

Fix that title gore please

~~Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced~~Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption

Windows is ransomware now

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Yeah it can happen, when you force people without their consent encrypting their data.

It tech here. Yup sure does. For enterprise customers it gets saved in active directory anyway. But for home users, no way. For new devices I always create a local account and turn off bitlocker if it happens to be enabled. Most people don't remember their email password, some don't even remember their email address. So many times I've had to remove the drive of a dead PC or laptop and copy all their files off of it, because people just don't make backups. But already happenend a few times now that a private customer got suckered into making a Microsoft account by one of those full screen pop ups. Probably set it up with an E-Mail some relative of theirs created just so they can download stuff of their Phones App store. And all their stuff just gets automatically encrypted. Bye Bye all the photos you had taken for the last 10 years. Thanks Microsoft.

I'm of the opinion that encryption based security should be compartmentalized. IE, an encrypted folder, or "safe" app. Safes in housing are already a concept that is already commonly known so it would be natural to extend a safe into the digital realm. This would also help in the idea that safes are locked with a key, so if the user loses their keys, whatever is inside the safe, might as well be lost.

Now if EVERYTHING is a safe, (always on encryption). People will never known the difference. Its a dangerous type of security that is likely to be more a loss than a benefit.

What a stinker of an OS. Linux never looked so good

I saw this problem coming a mile away

I've decided to switch to Linux come october. I have some reasons I wanna wait as long as I can, but come october I'm leaving Windows behind.

I'm in favor of a heavy handed push towards encryption, I think most people don't realize how important this is (now more than ever), but windows should be guiding and educating on this not requiring, and it should have absolutely nothing to do with an email address or online account.

Fool me once, shame on you and fool me twice, shame on me; fool me hundred times and what the fuck is wrong with me

Something broke.

When are stockholders going to realize that the current Microsoft CEO is ruining Windows?

How are these people losing access to their MS accounts on their computers?

ShitLocker

All of the data I actually care about is stored on a NAS and backed up in triplicate. The only data actually on my PC are program files.

I read the article but am not smarter than before. I heard some time ago that windows does encrypt the drive but you need an active online account and the key will be saved online. So do people forget their online passwords and methods to recover that said account? I dont like m$ and am using linux, but people loosing their passwords, being uninformed about their systems and dont so backups is not the direct fault of the operating system.