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As applies to other major data services providers with shit-useless customer support and arbitrary algorithmic "service" decision-making, DO NOT FUCKING TRUST y
by southernplaces7 1y ago
As applies to other major data services providers with shit-useless customer support and arbitrary algorithmic "service" decision-making, DO NOT FUCKING TRUST your data to rest exclusively within anything that they own and control.
Export your email archives, spread your personal files across multiple devices and services, and ideally, keep copies of your files on your own backup HDs or at the very least with one other cloud provider, that also happens to be small enough for you to reach a human if something goes wrong.
At least Microscum can't yet lock one out of their own PC or laptop at this stage. This person trusted too much in their OneDrive service.
To note: looking particularly at people who've let themselves become Google-dependent here, just as much as anyone silly enough to trust 30 years of their work exclusively to fucking Microsoft of all things.
- blibble 1y ago> At least Microscum can't yet lock one out of their own PC or laptop at this stage. tell that to the people that received the dreaded Bitlocker unlock screen after a broken windows update key is... stored in your MS account
- hedora 1y agoI have a windows 8 phone that’s up to 30 days between pin guesses. I probably should give up and recycle it.
- southernplaces7 1y agoBut can you not remove the PIN screen entirely if you have access?
- deafpolygon 1y agoIt's probably the first PIN you thought you tried. Not speaking from experience, or anything.
- nine_k 1y agoBitLocker has rescue codes, or something. I remember using them in such a situation. It was a corporate machine, and I had been instructed to obtain the rescue codes the first thing upon receiving it.
- southernplaces7 1y agoI... wasn't aware of that particular tidbit, but all the more worrisome. At least it was a genuine error and not part of a deliberate Microshit policy of enforcing the ability to lock one's computer down.
- sidewndr46 1y agoDoesn't BitLocker allow them to do exactly that? Your local files are encrypted by a key they hold
- southernplaces7 1y agoTo whoever downvoted this perfectly reasonable range of suggestions that anyone sane should apply given what we all know full well about these companies ability to freeze accounts and comically dystopian user "support", Why? Respond constructively, as adults do, if you have some disagreement.