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Microsoft locks Windows 11 user out, shows how easy losing data from forced encryption is (www.neowin.net)

submitted 1 week ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I wonder how this is going to work in government offices....

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

they've been using forced bitlocker for years.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

the keys are on the in house domain servers though.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Isn’t Microsoft pushing everyone to host their AD on Azure now?

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

yep, in several countries including where I live. Several government institutions and state-owned companies have been using M$ Azure since 2 years ago.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I mean even if not its a virtual machine but they should still have control and backup/disaster recovery. So they could mass download all keys and encrypt it and put it on some other storage. I mean things like that should be done but as a tech person who has worked with this kind of thing I never am really satisfied with any backup and disaster recovery I have come across. Scratch that. Cars.com did a pretty good job overall and I imagine some other large corps do but its amazing how many don't.