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Securing Microsoft products is busy work while waiting to have it undercut by the next wave of MS’s insane tech debt and greed. And now backdoors!
As long as Microsoft will continue to use dark patterns to convert local accounts to online accounts and automatically, without user consent, encrypt the storage drives preventing any computer use until the user goes to aka.ms and through the hoops, this is a good thing. No one should have their data encrypted and kept from them without consent unless they do something. Microsoft does that now. They may not be requri…
You only need to use the aka.ms link if you lost your recovery key. That feature also can be disabled without disabling Bitlocker as a whole.
I recently (last week) had to drive over to a parent's house and "fix" their (pre-online accounts) win 11 computer used for sewing because it had become a blue screen saying aka.ms was required. They did not know how it happened and are not very technical users so I imagine they were tricked by some click-through dialog. It is not something they would ever do intentionally. All that computer ever does is run sewing pattern/control software.
Maybe I’m an outlier but I don’t want my drives encrypted at all. I rather have all my data be accessible if things go catastrophic, I.E. having to pull the drive out of a broken computer and put it in another computer to access the files. I just want it to be plug and play.
My harddrives (laptop, work laptop, desktop, server) contain emails, browser sessions, saved passwords, personal data from family and friends. I do not want someone stealing my laptop on a train ride potentially being able to have all of that data. With a proper real backup strategy, i have everything save. I do not need easy access to a hard drive from a broken computer. But hey you do you :)
Maybe I’m an outlier but I don’t want my drives encrypted at all. I rather have all my data be accessible if things go catastrophic, I.E. having to pull the drive out of a broken computer and put it in another computer to access the files. I just want it to be plug and play.
My harddrives (laptop, work laptop, desktop, server) contain emails, browser sessions, saved passwords, personal data from family and friends. I do not want someone stealing my laptop on a train ride potentially being able to have all of that data. With a proper real backup strategy, i have everything save. I do not need easy access to a hard drive from a broken computer. But hey you do you :)
At what point will Security professionals start turning down roles that involve “securing” MS Products? I’m already at this point. Securing Microsoft products is busy work while waiting to have it undercut by the next wave of MS’s insane tech debt and greed. And now backdoors!
You can enable ADP for E2E encrypted backups, but it's probable not going to help you much, because the people you are communicating with likely didn't.
This is not to defend Microsoft, more to say that all these companies were part of PRISM.
Maybe I’m an outlier but I don’t want my drives encrypted at all. I rather have all my data be accessible if things go catastrophic, I.E. having to pull the drive out of a broken computer and put it in another computer to access the files. I just want it to be plug and play.
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My harddrives (laptop, work laptop, desktop, server) contain emails, browser sessions, saved passwords, personal data from family and friends. I do not want someone stealing my laptop on a train ride potentially being able to have all of that data. With a proper real backup strategy, i have everything save. I do not need easy access to a hard drive from a broken computer. But hey you do you :)
Cool. Everyone's threat model is different. As long as we're not writing passwords on sticky notes attached to the monitor, I don't think there's any need to be throwing stones.
Tuesday, 12 May 2026 - "Here are the links, yes, two vulnerabilities this time [YellowKey] [GreenPlasma] [...] Next patch tuesday will have a big surprise for you Microsoft"
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - "I can't wait when I will be allowed to disclose the full story, I think people will find my crashout very reasonable and it definitely won't be a good look for Microsoft."
Author's blog: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/
First post in March 2026 is "[...] someone violated our agreement and left me homeless with nothing. They knew this will happen and they still stabbed me in the back anyways, this is their decision not mine."
I'm not sure what to make of it, is this someone essentially "leaking" things from the inside? Sure sounds like it, and others are able to reproduce the results.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My harddrives (laptop, work laptop, desktop, server) contain emails, browser sessions, saved passwords, personal data from family and friends. I do not want someone stealing my laptop on a train ride potentially being able to have all of that data. With a proper real backup strategy, i have everything save. I do not need easy access to a hard drive from a broken computer. But hey you do you :)
Are you saying you bring your desktop on a train ride as well? Laptops with encryption make sense; if you need to encrypt your desktop, I have questions.