Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw
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The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.
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  • tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Don’t most Linux distributions not enable full disk encryption by default? How would that have improved the situation in this case?

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      While it’s rarely by default (I actually don’t know any that do by default but), it is usually a simple checkbox during the installation. And a provided password, of course.

    • bryndos@fedia.io
      2 months

      It’s worse than that, lots of these linuxes actually have this builtin virus called wine, which means they are really just windows in disguise.

      It also makes them look like a hacker to the FBI, that’s why TYOTLD has never come. Most linusers are getting dissapeared to guano bay.

      Far safer to stay on windows, linus is only suitable for real hackers who can grep their way into cia mainframe to expunge their records.