Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video

Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by noxer on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:00AM (#28061090)

Can people stop already. Its NOT true. Windows 11 runs perfectly fine without. There is no enforcement at all. All the hardware checks are in the setup/installer which is not needed its just one way to install the OS and ofc it can be circumvented easily if someone really wants the installer/update experience for some reason.

Same for TPM. Not even TPM 1.2 is enforced and that was a requirement for windows 10 already.

For lazy people with win10 already installed use https://github.com/ArkaneDev/WinPass11

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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:10AM (#28061900)

I looked at the code - it downloads a .reg file from the web and modifies your registry with the content of that .reg file in admin mode. At the moment that .reg file modifies the registry to allow bypassing TPM checks, but at any future time the author can replace that .reg file with something malicious. I wouldn't download that program.

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Re:Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized W... by noxer on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:13PM (#28064306)

I'm aware of that. It also loads a DLL from windows10 installer. I assume it intentional so the files can be updated if MS would add more checks. It's open source for a reason.

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