Timeline for Can I use VeraCrypt with an SSD?
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| Mar 15, 2021 at 8:55 | comment | added | Haukinger | @gronostaj not on an individual case-by-case basis. Of course, does microsoft-created code decide whether I'm allowed to login on classic/offline windows, but using Windows 10 is different - Microsoft can selectively deny or allow each individual login attempt without me making any changes to my machine. Essentially, I'd be saying "this isn't my machine" - which one has been doing forever in the context of domains, but there, the machine actually isn't my machine but the company's. | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 8:10 | comment | added | CBHacking | Microsoft accounts can be used fine offline, at least for a while (I'm not sure if there's an offline time limit but they definitely don't have to check with MS every time you log in). Regardless, though... like I said, just don't do that! Use a local account instead. It's a bit less convenient (mostly things like needing to separately sign in to OneDrive and no clipboard sync option) but it works fine, and the option is available on all editions of Windows 10. EDIT: Also, "couldn't" in previous comment should have been "could" but I can't re-edit it. | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 8:01 | comment | added | gronostaj | @Haukinger If you're running Windows, you are letting Microsoft decide whether you're allowed to login into your machine. | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 7:52 | comment | added | Haukinger | @CBHacking even if they don't get the BitLocker key, I wouldn't let Microsoft decide whether I'm allowed to login into my private machine or not. | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 5:21 | comment | added | CBHacking | That means your Windows account is a Microsoft account. You couldn't have not done that. They don't make it obvious - it's small text under the box where you're supposed to put your email address at account creation - but there's an option "Create a local account instead". It might be possible to convert an MS account to a local one, even (the other direction works). Also, at the login screen, you're past where BitLocker would matter anyhow. So it doesn't prove anythign at all about any encryption keys (using a MS account and BL without giving MS the recovery key might be possible? Unsure). | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 3:05 | comment | added | questioner | When I tried to login, I clicked the "forgotten password" option and it asked me to sign into my hotmail account to recover it proving Microsoft must have the key... | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 2:18 | history | answered | CBHacking | CC BY-SA 4.0 |