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If 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
by unethical_ban 7mo ago
If 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.
- p_ing 7mo agoWhile a thief or LEO could boot the OS, just having the motherboard doesn’t give them access to the underlying data. They would need to have a valid user account.
- dark-star 7mo agoyou should protect your account with a password of course. that will be used to decrypt your drive/data
- unethical_ban 7mo agoIt was not made clear to me that my username/password was the decryption method! I was expecting something like Linux where a separate password is needed. Furthermore it wasn't intuitive to me that my user account would decrypt more than just my home directory.