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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
There’s iirc four different ways you can store your recovery details and you’re prompted before encryption even starts to do so. As others have said it can be turned off via control panel or command line
It’s hardly the issue of the century
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You make it sound like it's nothing but it's one of the in my opinion biggest threats to a PC end user in recent history for those who are not "Tech Savvy"!
Not only does it
not ask you whether you want it on or not, it is by "Default"
FORCED on when you do a fresh install or recovery, if you do not know it has been enabled then you are going to lose data later down the line, remember Windows is more used by people who barely know how to install programmes never mind being able to find the location, of an Encryption key and how to use or back it up.
It also runs constantly in the background taking up resources potentially affecting the speed of less powerful machines with it's constant "Read/Write" task's, also affecting battery life, CPU lifetime, RAM usage etc.
With the increase in usage on the SSD you also get excess wear on the SSD because you have constant "Read/Write" task's more than usual meaning you are more than likely going to have an SSD fail sooner when Bitlocker is enabled that without it enabled, which also means if you didn't know Bitlocker was enabled so didn't backup your Encryption keys etc, then you lose
ALL data on that drive potentially that machine as it may do all drives not just the Windows drive.
The next issue is this update also removes more way's of getting around the "Microsoft we want all your information account" requirement, so not only do they want to force your pc to be less reliable, more power hungry, more damaging to the environment, more wasteful, but they are still trying to find more ways to get your email address to link your details to your individual advertisement associated ID, which they use when they sell your details, your data is worth more when they can put a name and email address to an ID than it is with only an ID saying "This person just looks at car parts" instead of "This person looks at car parts, their name is X and they live in X City, they also like to look at Rings, listen to Rap, RNB, D&B, they like horror movies and sci-fi tv shows, they look at holidays in Spain, France, and America" you should add these adverts to their fakebook account and hit them with them whilst watching YouTube or looking at the news sites.
Now we are hearing about the whole next upgrade to Windows 11 which is just releasing on the ARM based systems using, the new Snapdragon CPU, which is the "Windows 11 Copilot+ Edition" which should spark fear in everyone's mind with what that thing is going to do!
Up to now I know it's looking like it's going to constantly backup all your keystrokes, all your clicks, all the programmes you use, all the videos you watch (titles), all the audio you listen to (titles), every document you open, every game you play etc etc all so that at any point, you can click on the "AI" menu and pull something back from a few minutes ago and it will pull it back exactly how you want it to because it's using snapshots, which is going to fill and kill your storage because it's doing it every 1 second!
Not only that but it will interact with everything you are doing, from telling you how to do something in a game potentially getting you banned for cheating, to how you should change your writing in order to not come across as "Offensive" because someone might get offended if you use the word "Stupid", or they might think you are being "Flirty" because you call someone "Good looking" etc.
Apparently this will be able to be turned off or limited in some aspects, but again for people who don't know how or where to do that, it's a threat to their privacy since you
cannot guarantee it will stay local!
It will also when you ask the "AI/Copilot" to do something, contact the Microsoft servers to confirm it's "Ok", so those on limited data plans or bandwidth limited connections will see their bandwidth used up quicker.
Also, if your PC cannot provide enough TOPS "Ai Performance Measurement" then you cannot upgrade/update windows anymore, meaning you have to go and buy a whole new PC or add in a GPU/NPU in order to provide the TOPS required, this is as bad as the EU with the whole "We want you to scrap your car if it's 15 years old and needs new brakes" rule that they want to bring in!
Yes let's all just roll over, say it's not a big issue and let Microsoft force specific requirements on us to use our pc's, why do I need to have Bitlocker on my pc, what benefit is it ever going to provide me? same with a Microsoft account, what benefit is it every going to provide me?
At least Linux is closer to the point that I can dump Windows all together, at least on there you still have a choice about things and still have control over your system without needing to do work arounds.