Re:From stolen laptop to inside the company network
by detaro on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:22PM
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It isn't, and you are misparsing the sentence in the article (it is saying the configuration as it was is the default, but describes it through what it's not, which makes the sentence a bit confusing) - look at the linked Microsoft documentation for confirmation.
manual PIN entry IS the default for BitLocker, and the article states this.