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Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr... by logifail on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:17AM (#17309697)
It's certainly not "on by default" for all Windows users, twice in the last month I've broken into machines for clients where users forgot their password, both times using nothing more than a USB stick (then replacing utilman.exe with cmd.exe)

Both boxes had fairly recent hardware and were running Windows 10 Pro.

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Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr... by kchr on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:27AM (#17309998)
So maybe those two users opted out of FDE, or had company requirements that told them to.
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Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr... by logifail on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:53AM (#17310115)
They didn't opt out of FDE and there are no company policies/requirements either.

I have three laptops on my desk right now, one HP Probook and two different Lenovo Ideapads. All three are running Windows 10 Enterprise (2x LTSB 2016, 1x 1803).

NONE of them have FDE enabled or have ever asked asked me about it.

Given the bold claim "[FDE is] on by default for (...) Windows users" - without mention of caveats re: login account types, domain memberships, or hardware requirements - it seems the counterexamples just keep coming.

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