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Could you create a slipstream ISO using nlite, create a user and then it's bypassed?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/prov...
It's such an absurd lie. If Microsoft's idea of security is to force its users to authenticate online for a local account, they should never be allowed in the software industry at all. They're needlessly and dramatically increasing the attack surface of one of the most security critical software running on user devices.
It's an argument for increased security in the same way that they consider uploading the contents of your hard drive to their servers to scan for "malware" (and other undesirable-to-them content) is. Corporate authoritarianism.
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Either way, I've been happily on Fedora for a while now, with very minimal "fuck I can't do that here"
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Microsoft's idea of security is moving people away from local accounts protected by passwords and to Microsoft accounts protected Windows Hello. The Windows Hello PIN is protected by the TPM. This means you can't brute force it like a password could be.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic, which is forcing online authentication. You can't possibly argue that needlessly forcing online authentication makes user safe.
Is there a good reason (other than licensing and Linux as an alternative) I shouldn't use Windows Server 202X as a Desktop OS?
It's such an absurd lie. If Microsoft's idea of security is to force its users to authenticate online for a local account, they should never be allowed in the software industry at all. They're needlessly and dramatically increasing the attack surface of one of the most security critical software running on user devices.
If windows is security critical for you, I think you've already shat the bed.
A while ago, I needed to get into safe mode to rescue a laptop that wouldn't boot. Since it uses Windows 11, I originally logged in using my Microsoft Account and a Windows Hello pin. Safe mode doesn't load wifi drivers and the laptop didn't have an ethernet port, so I couldn't log in to my Microsoft Account to get into Windows safe mode. Didn't have a dongle with ethernet port at that time, so I had to backup the dr…
wait, you need internet connection to even login? this means root cannot use computer when you do not have internet connection for any reason?
That's right. It sounds like a bug but this is Microsoft we're talking about here. They're probably brainstorming for ways to lock you from your own computer.
You can solve this problem by creating an offline account with Admin privileges after setting up Windows with your online account, but most users won't do that.
Could you create a slipstream ISO using nlite, create a user and then it's bypassed?
https://christitustech.github.io/winutil/userguide/
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
https://christitus.com/windows-utility-improved/
It's an open source textGUI powershell suite with hyperlinks to all the toggle tweaks, maintained by one talented MS engineer and contributed to and eyeballed by a hundred odd contibuters.
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It's an argument for increased security in the same way that they consider uploading the contents of your hard drive to their servers to scan for "malware" (and other undesirable-to-them content) is. Corporate authoritarianism.
The trick is that most of the users need this service. Before Windows Defender was built in you had to buy an anti virus software from sneak oil Windows security industry, and likely get somehow scammed in process. The same companies sell anti virus for Android today. Also most users is not all.
Requiring an online account to use Windows isn't really the same thing.