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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by AshamedCaptain on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:45AM (#32025369)
> No, very few models sold auto-encrypt because most have the very least one untrusted DMA-capable bus.

This is a malicious thing to say considering the context (the same problem would affect MS OSes too), and for all practically purposes: since Windows 8 _all laptops_ that I have been able to buy had Bitlocker enabled out of the box (to my annoyance), not to mention that it was practically standard IT police for any large Windows shop.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by rascul on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:17AM (#32026218)
I bought a Dell Inspiron some years ago. It came with Windows 8 and Bitlocker was not enabled.
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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by Avamander on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:48AM (#32025398)
> since Windows 8 _all laptops_ that I have been able to buy had Bitlocker enabled out of the box, not to mention that it was practically standard IT police for any large Windows shop.

Please, the current context is "average user" not an "average enterprise". In the latter case I agree with your assessment.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by AshamedCaptain on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:51AM (#32025415)
It's not like I don't buy my laptops at the same places average users do. Can you show me one model of a laptop in sale today with Windows 11 that does not enable Bitlocker by default ?
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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by Avamander on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:54AM (#32025443)
Less than 1.5% of PC's are on Windows 11, I don't think it's a representative sample of "average user".
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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by AshamedCaptain on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:02AM (#32025525)
OK, is that because you have in mind a Windows 10 laptop which does not enable Bitlocker by default ?
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