> I used one of the unofficial, unsupported, yet well known and commonly used tricks to get through the setup process without having to sign in with a Microsoft

> I used one of the unofficial, unsupported, yet well known and commonly used tricks to get through the setup process without having to sign in with a Microsoft account > It turns out that if you skip the Microsoft account sign-in step and only create a “local account”, your data is encrypted but the encryption key is stored on the drive unprotected So . . . unsupported behavior gets unexpected results? [cue sad trombone]