YellowKey reportedly works in Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and 2025, but not in Windows 10.

  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    BitLocker is basically malware, so who fucking cares. Far more people have it accidentally on and get locked out than people that have purposefully activated it.

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      You have just reminded me I could use this on the laptop my mother set up like five years ago and immediately forgot the password for.

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        When I worked at an MSP, BitLocker cost companies thousands of dollars when it did something strange. User error has very catastrophic consequences with BitLocker and nobody that actually cares about security uses BitLocker. From my professional experience it is malware. The places where I have seen it used on purpose was because of policy bullshit and everyone agreed that it was a hindrance rather than an advantage.

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          And from my experience in banking, healthcare and others; every company uses bitlocker on workstations, I saw EncFS once in dozens of companies audited.

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            Using encryption on files systems is fine, but the Microslop Bitlocker implementation is awful. In any ecosystem that is not fully regulated BitLocker is a liability. I have had colleagues that could beat it.

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        Companies care that you have access to it. The “companies that care” literally wrote the backdoor.