4 ms·
With Windows, you get what you pay for. In this case, that's an OS controlled by an unaccountable company that can take application software away from you. Re
by msla 6mo ago
With Windows, you get what you pay for.
In this case, that's an OS controlled by an unaccountable company that can take application software away from you.
Related: If you're the customer, you're the product.
- Already__Taken 6mo agoWindows actually isn't very cheap.
- stronglikedan 6mo agoagree, because "free" can be neither "cheap" nor "expensive"
- jonathanstrange 6mo agoIt's not free at all. If you buy Windows through the official channels it's quite expensive. If you buy it on the grey market, it's dirt cheap, though.
- BizarroLand 6mo agoAnd even if you pay $1,000,000/day to use it, it still spies on you and sells your data to outsiders.
- shiroiuma 6mo agoExactly, yet lots of people are happy to keep using it and paying the price to do so, despite the existence of free and far superior alternatives.
- dark-star 6mo agoyou can always either disable secureboot and driver signature verification, or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that...
- malfist 6mo ago> or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that... I'll tell Grandma that's what she needs to do.
- pixel_popping 6mo agoMake sure that she setup a PKI infrastructure to manage certificate revocation as well, wouldn't want a bad grandson to mess with it.
- p_ing 6mo agoWhy would you put Grandma on VeriCrypt in the first place? It's the more 'difficult' option for FDE.
- unethical_ban 6mo agoWhat's easier, and bitlocker doesn't count. I want my FDE to be based on a password or a keyfile, not simply by some code in the motherboard. I want it encrypted until I, the operator, provide some data to unlock. In my limited experience with bitlocker, the disk is decryptable automatically as long as it's in the original motherboard.
- p_ing 6mo ago> and bitlocker doesn't count. Wat? Bitlocker is the answer to your question. > In my limited experience with bitlocker, the disk is decryptable automatically as long as it's in the original motherboard. It's unlocked (not decrypted) when the OS boots, yes. You can optionally enforce (not on Home) other unlock methods, such as PIN before the OS boots. > I want my FDE to be based on a password or a keyfile, not simply by some code in the motherboard. That's less secure than TPM.
- unethical_ban 6mo agoIf someone steals my laptop, and there is no factor of decryption requiring something I possess or know, then the only use of that disk being encrypted is that I can throw it out more safely at end of life. Thieves/LEO has the data because they have the motherboard. If bitlocker has a PIN/passphrase decrypt option, then I missed it.
- subscribed 6mo agoHmmm, so basically Google but you also pay for it?
- kgwxd 6mo agoChromeOS and Android are definitely comparable.
- panzi 6mo agoI see what you did there.