While Shrinklocker is not the first to use bitlocker’s encryption built in to windows, we have to keep our eyes and ears on this one.
It encrypts using the famous sentence we’ve been known to type which teaches the placement of hands on keys when typing, as well as mathematical computations and special characters.
Bitlocker came in to being in Windows Vista in 2007 and is a way for users to encrypt the hard drive once not in use.
It shrinks the non-boot part of the drive by 100 megabytes (mb) which is why it is called Shrinklocker. It splits that space in to newly allocated partitions as well.
This is a very good article by Dan Goodin and one I think we need to read. It will not surprise me if it is picked for a topic, and I’m game if it is.
Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data is our article for this topic. Comes to us from Ars Technica.
Have fun with this one! Be safe, and be aware.
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And here is microsoft blindly giving all on its accounts encripted drives.
Why not ask the users if they want it.
I don’t see any reason a home user should have an incrypted drive.
I Can tell you about a reason not to.
I had an uncle that had a system, fully encrypted and all that.
He never asked for it.
It was fine enough while he could login and while he had access to his files.
Then one day the main drive board controler burned out and went on fire.
The drive was undammaged but the encryption couldn’t be removed.
Luckilly he had a friend at church that was a hacker for the police and was able to get the data restored onto a random drive.
He was lucky.
I see a reason securitty and business wize to get your drive encrypted but certainly I wouldn’t encrypt my os drive and certainly on a home system I wouldn’t encrypt at all.
In fact I’d even go as far as saying I wouldn’t use an ms account on a home system.
I have a local on this laptop.
I don’t see a reason to secure a system I run off and on for this and that.
99.9% of my work is not secure.
And for the rest I clean my junk folders and log off sites every time I am done.
Now this appears.
If I were microsoft I’d actually not encrypt user’s systems unless they want it and give tthe ability to recover them or invalidate the key and either destroy them or force decrypt.
In addition I wouldn’t have the control on ms end or anything.
This just proves that their bitlocker is trouble from the get go.
Users are already being forced.
Its another reason why not to use windows 11 in my opinion.
If microsoft want their own system then give it tto the companies.
Have a windows business adition that only runs on business systems.
Have your home/ pro version as home and small business, leave it with a 10 style desktop, no ms account features at all and to be honest who uses them, bar some apps, and then just leave us home users alone please.
I spend most of my time on new setups removing or rejigging their logins to use local accounts with ms account as secondary.
I then spend time dialing back unneeded security and other quite annoying features not usefull to them.
My system for example is running several hacks and cracks which microsoft wouldn’t like.
This gives it a windows 10 style system with a 7 style shell and a local account with a secondary ms tie in for apps I want.
My apps are mostly desktop and the same with my shell.
I don’t need and or wantt extras and I don’t think I am alone here.