Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess
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Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

    • ryannathansEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Veracrypt drive encryption does not have the same problem, it would be secure even with physical access

        • ryannathansEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, it’s safe because of no TPM usage. You can boot from an encrypted drive, it’ll prompt for the key instead of auto loading from vulnerable hardware

          • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            Bitlocker supports the same usecase, but everybody wants that automatic boot feature so…

            It also lets you store a secondary key on a server and require the computer to be on trusted networks to be able to retrieve it to boot, but I’ve never ever heard of anybody using that

            • ryannathansEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              Pretty sure it uploads the key to microsoft servers when you do that

              • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                9 months ago

                That’s the default, but you can block it in the command line configuration tool