• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    The fun thing about Linux is your realize physical control is ownership. You can just throw a Bootable Linux image with some utilities and remove the password from a Windows account in a second. If you really need to keep something safe, it has to be encrypted.

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      10 months ago

      remove the password from a Windows account

      That used to be true, but no longer works

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        10 months ago

        Regardless, you can just read what’s on the disk anyway, so you don’t need to be able to log in.

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          10 months ago

          Unless bitlocker is enabled by default, which is becoming more and more common unfortunately…