Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess
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Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    10 months ago

    There probably will someday be a push to prevent common normal people from having access to computer systems that offer the user root or superuser access. “ThE aVeRaGe PeRsOn DoEsNt NeEd AdMiN pErMiSsIoNs” or “think of the children”. Ipads and surface pros will be allowed but something like a socket 1155 motherboard won’t.

    • kugiyasanEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Someday? Canada is already trying to ban the Flipper Zero, we’re living in your nightmare.

    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      We’re gonna have problems getting enough software engineers in the future. How is anyone supposed to learn when everything is locked away. It’s already happening in the repair industry and the trades.

      • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        When the government starts taking away unlocked bootloader phones, I will be switching to ham radio instead of getting a locked down phone. Fuck the system.

        • Virtual Insanity @lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Sad thing is there is no way to securely communicate via ham radio.

          But I’d be fully open to going pirate!

          And with regard to unlocked bootloaders, I think it’s the manufactures wanting to lock away choice and options that is the issue more than the government.

    • Specal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      No one wants LGA1155 anymore anyway so it’s Gucci, my i7-2600 was far past it’s life span 5 years ago

        • Specal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          The IPC just isn’t good enough of those chips anymore, making them really inefficient. You’d be better off buying a modern celeron

          • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            A modern celeron costs like 150 bucks after a motherboard and ram, you can buy an old pc that’s bound for a landfill for like 20 bucks, and they are perfectly usable for something like a nas, a tor node, or a minecraft server

            Edit: 150’s a bit high prolly like 90 is possible

            • Specal@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              The old wholesale of PCs for 20 buckeroos doesn’t really exist here in the UK so I never considered that