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FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0 (news.slashdot.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows."

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're wrong, it's true. installs of Windows 11 automatically have software bitlocker when installed on compatible storage devices. If you don't sync with a Microsoft account, you are required to manually export the recovery key or risk getting locked out of the system. And you are not told that you need to do so.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But that isn't what he said. He said that MS encrypts your data without a password. That is not true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You're wrong. This can occur when setting up some OEM systems without a Microsoft account or password. Here is a SuperUser post where someone is asking how to deliberately put a disk back into this state. I have personally run into this.