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On 24/10/2021 17:58, comrade meowski wrote: > On 21/10/2021 09:05, Andrew Pearce wrote: >> On 21/10/2021 07:36, Ray Smith via list wrote: >>> I've never, ever seen Bitlocker enabled by default on a Windows Home >>> system. Isn't that just for Pro and above? >>> >>> Ray. >>> >> >> Ray is correct, the home version does not include Bitlocker, that's for Pro and >> Enterprise versions. > > Apologies this is correct and that was me being lazy with assumptions. > > Windows 10 Home does not include BitLocker by name. It does however have this: > > https://www.windowscentral.com/how-enable-device-encryption-windows-10-home > > Which works in exactly the same way but without the userspace control panel knobs - > beneath the covers it's presumably using the exact same dlls and _is_ Bitlocker in > all but branding in order for Microsoft to be able to distinguish the full product > in the Pro/Workstation/Enterprise SDKs. Windows 10 Home - if the user is signed is > with a Microsoft Account rather than a local account - will also automatically > escrow the key generated during the disk encryption to the account's cloud storage. > > Well, that is at least my understanding of it but to be honest I think I'm probably > a bit out of date and need to check up on how all this actually works because I'm > probably wrong. I was wrong about it being called Bitlocker just for a start after > all... I just presumed it was Bitlocker for the above reasons. Turns out I use > Windows 10 Home so little (basically as long as it takes to migrate it to Pro) that > I don't really know what I'm talking about. > > The moral of the story is that A: Windows Home Editions suck and B: they don't have > Bitlocker but something that looks a bit like it. And also I don't know anything > about Windows 10 Home + Bitlocker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > Dude, you're slacking .. .get to it !! :P
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