I was wondering when a reporter would uncover this.

[gsprs@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog I don’t understand putting your trust in black box proprietary encryption software when TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt exist and are older than BitLocker by 3 years, stupid doesn’t even begin to describe it.

[spiro8mastodeon@toot.community]

@GossiTheDog yes true

[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@GossiTheDog am I a Luddite if I mention that paper can get tossed into a fireplace or shredded?

[fedops@fosstodon.org]

@GossiTheDog there's no secure in slop. Never has been.

[yoshi@toot.community]

@GossiTheDog Never, ever trust any company to secure your secrets. Use local storage like Proton to keep it on your own devices, under your own control

[abmurrow@hachyderm.io]

@GossiTheDog That's not encryption, that's just a password with extra steps.

[troi@techhub.social]

@GossiTheDog I was already in the process of getting everything Microsoft dragged up to its cloud out. Docker is finally killed off, and as much of Google as I can, but they don't make it easy.

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@gsprs @GossiTheDog last time I set up a Win11 machine a year and a half ago, it was obligatory to use an account (they had blocked all the workarounds at the time) - and BitLocker was automatically activated. Not sure it's even easy to deactivate that and use VeraCrypt instead, now.

On my previous Win11 machine, I was able to bypass using an account and BitLocker was not provided. In that case I found I could put a firmware lock on the drive - good enough for my purposes.

[olangella@fosstodon.org]

@bontchev @GossiTheDog which is why I don't have a Microsoft operating system ;)

[rairii@labyrinth.zone]

@GossiTheDog "so bitlocker is super secure, right?"

yeah, that's what i thought too, until a few years ago, when most of windows boot environment bugs i found came with bitlocker key dumping or derivation as a side effect

there's more default settings than just that that leads to a less secure configuration

[heretochewgum@fosstodon.org]

@Yoshi @GossiTheDog

https://keepassxc.org/

[autonomousapps@mstdn.social]

@GossiTheDog jfc

> Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling the island’s Covid unemployment assistance program were part of a plot to steal funds.

[lokalmatator@social.tchncs.de]

@GossiTheDog
So, wo auch das Thema dann mal durch ist.

Gut das wir im Bereich der kritischen Infrastruktur auf unabhängige #Software setzen.