Windows 11 to receive default BitLocker encryption, new RAM speed metrics in Task Manager

[Thrackerzod]

I’m all for hating on Microsoft but both of these changes are good. It’s always drove me mad that the home version didn’t support bitlocker, so hearing that home users can make use of device encryption warms my heart

This isn't about supporting it, this is about encrypting ALL of your drives by default when you install Windows 11. That's bad.

 

[user478318]

Thumbs up for all the changes!! Stop with the Windows 11 trashing, it's becoming the best Windows ever made. Windows 10 can't go to pages of history soon enough!

 

[BobHome]

I’m all for hating on Microsoft but both of these changes are good. It’s always drove me mad that the home version didn’t support bitlocker, so hearing that home users can make use of device encryption warms my heart

I have Windows 11 Home on a laptop and after a BIOS upgrade& reboot, Windows demanded I enter my BitLocker Recovery Key. I went 'Huh?!?! Home doesn't have BitLocker!"
But I learned in my M$ account, one can log in to get their 'secure' hard drive keys--But it isn't BitLocker for the Home edition.
The can find the time to lay off thousands of employees, but can't even give the correct name to the Home edition's 'File Encryption'.

 

[GhostLegion]

Well because I want the full performance of my SSD, and I'm not a child pornographer?

There are SSD's with dedicated hardware blocks to encrypt/decrypt data so you could easily get the full performance. Do you also leave your car/home unlocked? How about your phone? Does wanting encryption really equate to peddling in CSAM to you? C'mon now

 

[Beerfloat]

There are SSD's with dedicated hardware blocks to encrypt/decrypt data so you could easily get the full performance. Do you also leave your car/home unlocked? How about your phone? Does wanting encryption really equate to peddling in CSAM to you? C'mon now

Bitlocker does not use hardware encryption by default. Obviously there are completely legitimate reasons for wanting encryped storage. But the original statement I responded to lacked all nuance so playful exaggeration seemed appropriate for the counterpoint.

 

[RaXelliX]

Disabling Bitlocker will be possible . I hope for local accounts this thing not to be forced .

Rufus has had the option to disable BitLocker in it's settings for ages.

This isn't about supporting it, this is about encrypting ALL of your drives by default when you install Windows 11. That's bad.

No it's not. Just the system drive like it has always been. The only thing that is changing is that BitLocker will be enabled by default for system drive (right now it's not on by default). Also Android for example has had encryption enabled for ages and it dont see people complaining about that - well all but people like me who root their phones.

Do you also leave your car/home unlocked? How about your phone?

It's not the same thing. What you are talking about are initial barriers to entry like lock screens and locks. Encryption would be like rearranging your home furniture, valuables, data etc into a jumbled mess so any intruders would not know where to look and could not make heads or tails of their surroundings.

 

[Thrackerzod]

Rufus has had the option to disable BitLocker in it's settings for ages.

No it's not. Just the system drive like it has always been. The only thing that is changing is that BitLocker will be enabled by default for system drive (right now it's not on by default). Also Android for example has had encryption enabled for ages and it dont see people complaining about that - well all but people like me who root their phones.

It's not the same thing. What you are talking about are initial barriers to entry like lock screens and locks. Encryption would be like rearranging your home furniture, valuables, data etc into a jumbled mess so any intruders would not know where to look and could not make heads or tails of their surroundings.

This article says all drives, but it could be wrong. https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-t...om-encrypting-your-disks-during-installation/

 

[DEMinSoCal]

Yep. When I worked for Pepsi last year their entire system was down because someone supposedly hacked in and shut everything down related to networking and god knows what else so we couldn't scan inventory with our provided iPhones. The entire reason the IT Admin couldn't get in to resolve whatever the person did to the system, was because they didn't know the Bitlocker key lol. That screen that prompts to enter the Bitlocker key was on the main tv for almost a week and it was all because someone didn't write down the key.

Did you know brand new laptops, including those with Windows 11 Home, encrypt themselves on initial boot and don't tell you? I've run into this multiple times, setting up a new laptop, then wanting to clone the SSD to a bigger one, only to find out it shows it's Bitlocker encrypted. WHERE'S THE RECOVERY KEY? God knows because it wasn't given to me or I wasn't even presented with the fact the system was being encrypted (Windows Home calls it "device encryption" which can be turned off in System Settings, but it definitely needs to be made MORE OBVIOUS to the end user to save their recovery key and inform them that their drive will be encrypted.